Invisible mouse cursor

CrystalCowboy · #1 16th November 2007, 04:05 PM

I have a new Fedora 8 installation.

Athlon 64 3800+
ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard
using the on-board GeForce 6150 graphics with the "nv" driver
USB optical mouse

The problem: my mouse cursor is invisible! By moving the mouse around, I can highlight various things, but not being able to see the arrow pointer makes it very difficult to get things done. The same situation occurs not just on a user desktop, but on the login screen as well.

I am attaching a copy of /var/log/Xorg.0.log.

As side note, in the attachment manager, why is ".log" not a recognized file type?

leigh123linux · #2 16th November 2007, 06:31 PM

Try adding this to your device section of your xorg.conf

Option "HWCursor" "off"

FriedChips · #3 16th November 2007, 06:49 PM

You could also ( this is how I do it on my laptop ) disable rhgb ( Red Hat Graphical Boot ), you will lose the pretty boot up stuff but I think it's better to do it that way.

Code:

su
nano /etc/grub.conf

then remove anywhere where it says rhgb and save it, and reboot.

CrystalCowboy · #4 17th November 2007, 06:24 PM

Thanks, I added:

Option "sw_cursor"

which i gather is equivalent to setting HWCursor off. I already have RHGB turned off. I like to see any error messages that occur during boot.

My machine was also very sluggish, but that seems to be taken care of with a CPU replacement and resetting of BIOS parameters.

BattleStarJesus · #5 18th November 2007, 01:04 AM

I have this problem also, I almost corrected but the problem persists. The condition is, mouse cursor is visible up until a user logs out, after a user logs out the mouse cursor disappears, and does not return until reboot.
Does any one know what is happening? I half-ass-ed corrected the misalignment by:

Option "HWCursor" "off" in the xorg.conf

and

Quote:

Originally Posted by FriedChips

You could also ( this is how I do it on my laptop ) disable rhgb ( Red Hat Graphical Boot ), you will lose the pretty boot up stuff but I think it's better to do it that way.

Code:

su
nano /etc/grub.conf

then remove anywhere where it says rhgb and save it, and reboot.

Will someone please explain to me what rhgb, HWCursor and SWCursor, are and do? If anyone has advice on how to correct the malfunction please let me know.

marko · #6 18th November 2007, 01:23 AM

rhgb == RedHat Graphical Boot, it's the graphical login prompt where the
Fedora 8 system ends up at when booting finishs. It asks for your
username/password and has some menus where you can set what
kind of session to use (kde, gnome, failsafe, etc) and language and
whether to reboot or shutdown. If you turn off rhgb in grub.conf
then you'll need to setup the system to just go to a bare
console and then log into your system, then run KDE/Gnome
or whatever desktop by running startx.

about SWCursor and HWCursor see section 5.11 in :

http://www.x.org/archive/X11R6.8.0/doc/ati5.html

Mark

pinenut · #7 2nd December 2007, 12:59 AM

I've also just installed FC8-8-x86-64 and encountered the same problem as the original poster had. I could not see the mouse cursor although I could see the mouse working.

My computer has the following:

Athlon 64 4200+
ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard
using the on-board GeForce 6150 graphics card
PS/2 mouse

Reading this thread lead me to a FC 8 installation guide.

To install the Livna repository which can be left on by default.

Code:

su -c 'rpm -i http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm'

For nVidia video drirver (* You need to have the Livna Repository enabled. )

Code:

su -c 'yum install kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-64bit'

Code:

 gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

I added the last two options.

Code:

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Videocard0"
	Driver      "nvidia"
	Option	    "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
        Option      "HWCursor" "off"
        Option      "SWCursor" "on"
EndSection

Now I can see the mouse cursor.