Mouse pointer disappears, getting worse

[krcrouse]

Hi all,

My mouse pointer disappears after powersaving display-turnoff. It did not seem to happen with 2.6.25-1, it's become consistent and severe with the 2.6.25-14 kernel upgrade, and one time I booted into the machine and there was no cursor. 2.6.25-8 might have had the problem, but only observed after hibernate, and infrequently.

The mouse is still "there" and I can navigate to the menu to restart the machine, but it's rather intolerable to try to use any applications.

Any ideas? Could this be a display driver issue? I have an Nvidia card in my laptop, and so I'm using the generic drivers.

Kevin

[Hlingler]

Yeah, this is a well-known problem with the "stock" open-source nvidia driver "nv". It was the first problem I had on Fedora (Core 5). Hard to find your way around when you can't see the cursor. :D Search around - IIRC, you have to add 'Option "HWCursor" "off" ' to /etc/X11/xorg.conf (or was it "on"?). Search around, you'll find it....

V

[krcrouse]

Thanks. I should have searched for "invisible" instead of "disappears" :)

I'm not calling it solved yet, but it looks like that's right.

Now Xorg, both Options added:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nv"
Option "HWCursor" "off"
Option "SWCursor" "on"
EndSection

[HowardRoark]

Thanks krcrouse, that worked perfectly for me in Fedora 8 on my Compaq/SR2020NX with NVidea GeForce 6150 LE.