no X cursor with recent kernels

[Kyle McMartin]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 07:00:57AM -0800, Steven I Usdansky wrote:
> What's up with the kernel? I go away for three weeks, and when I come back, update to today's Rawhide (kernel-PAE-2.6.29-0.131.rc5.git2.fc11.i686.rpm), and reboot, I find I have no cursor displayed in X. At first I thought it was GNOME, but the same problem occurs when using TWM. Reverting to an earlier version of X didn't solve the problem, but reverting to 
> kernel-2.6.29-0.73.rc3.git2.fc11.i686 gives me a displayed cursor again. 
> Hardware is a 5-year old Shuttle with "Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device" 
> (full smolt profile at
> http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_a4979b32-55a5-4382-9dc1-a3b9ea11addc)
> Bugzilla time, and if so, against the kernel?
> 

does booting with nomodeset fix it?