Cursor disappeared after FC8 reinstall

[Karl Larsen]

M. Fioretti wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> this is on the same AMD 64 computer which got corrupted after an update a
> few days ago (see "Firefox, mutt and others crash after update").
>
> It may have been, at least in part, a case of bad memory.
> I have reformatted, reinstalled everything and immediately applied all the
> updates and the nvidia drivers from the livna repo.
>
> Now everything is fine, except that the cursor doesn't show in X! The
> mouse _is_ working, I can for example right-click to get the "run-command"
> prompt in kde and start any app from there; and if I go (blindly) over an
> open konsole, I can scroll with the mouse wheel. It's just the cursor that
> it's invisible. What should I change in the X.org file? I'm baffled,
> actually, because I have basically redone the _same_ installation I was
> using until last Tuesday, and I never had cursor problems the first time.
>
> I will try to search it online, but without the cursor browsing is much
> slower, for me now, at least, I'd really appreciate a quick pointer in the
> right direction.
>
> TIA,
> Marco
>
> Hi Marco, go to /boot/grub/ and edit grub.conf and on the kernel lines erase the rgsd like thing. All you should have left is quiet :-) 

Karl