Invisible mouse pointer problem

[Tom Diehl]

On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Karl Larsen wrote:

> Tom Diehl wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I just installed f7 on a new box. Once the machine is up and running the 
>> mouse pointer disappears. The mouse is working because if I move it 
>> carefully I can use it to navigate the menus at the top of the screen. I 
>> was
>> able to turn on the option to highlight the mouse when the ctrl key is 
>> pressed
>> which allows me to kind of operate the machine.
>> 
>> I have installed all of the updates but I cannot figure out how to get the
>> mouse pointer to show up. Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this.
>> 
>> I am not running any of the nVidia propriatory modules and I would like to
>> avoid that if possible.
>> 
>> Below is the output of lspci:
>> 
>> [root at tigger2 pts0 ~]# lspci
>> 00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
>> 00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
>> 00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
>> 00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
>> 00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
>> 00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
>> 00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
>> 00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
>> 00:02.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
>> 00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C51G [GeForce 6100] 
>> (rev a2)
>> 00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
>> 00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a3)
>> 00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a3)
>> 00:0a.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a3)
>> 00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
>> 00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
>> 00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE (rev f1)
>> 00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev 
>> f1)
>> 00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
>> 00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev 
>> a2)
>> 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] 
>> HyperTransport Technology Configuration
>> 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] 
>> Address Map
>> 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] 
>> DRAM Controller
>> 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] 
>> Miscellaneous Control
>> 03:05.0 Communication controller: Conexant HSF 56k Data/Fax Modem
>> 03:08.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5788 Gigabit 
>> Ethernet (rev 03)
>> [root at tigger2 pts0 ~]#
>> 
>> Suggestions?
>> 
>> Regards,
>>
>   We need a lot more information about your computer. Does it include 
> Windows? Does the mouse work there?

No windows on the machine. The mouse does work normally in anaconda. What
other info would you like?

>
>   I loaded F7 twice and then deleted it twice but the pointer worked both 
> times.

I too have it running on 2 other boxes and it works as advertised. I really
like it. FWIW the mouse pointer is visible during the graphical boot. It
just disappears once the login screen comes up.

Regards,

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Tom Diehl		tdiehl at rogueind.com		Spamtrap address mtd123 at rogueind.com