Invisible mouse pointer problem

[Tom Diehl]

On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Mauriat M wrote:

> On 6/28/07, Tom Diehl <tdiehl at rogueind.com> 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.
>> 
>
> Sounds like:
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3009
>
> Solution:
> Disable HWCursor in Xorg.
>
> Example: /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>
> Section "Device"
>       Identifier  "Videocard0"
>       Driver      "nv"
>       Option      "HWCursor" "off"
> EndSection
>
> Hope this helps.

Yes it did!!

Thanks to all who responded. Turning off the HWCursor fixed it.


Regards,

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