[PLUG] Invisible Cursor

[Daniel Hedlund]

Bill Thoen wrote:
> I've got a problem with the cursor in the graphic interface going
> invisible. Here's the scenario: I boot up my Fedora Core 5 system in
> runlevel 3 (text mode). Then, when I want to switch to the Gnome desktop, I
> run startx. Everything's fine; the monitor is running at 1280 x 1024
> resolutoin and the cursor is visible. Then later, I log out back to text
> mode. The trouble happens when I run startx again. This time the cursor is
> invisible. The cursor is still working, but I just can't see it. The only
> way I've been able to fix this is to reboot the system, but this isn't an
> ideal way to operate.
> 
> Has anyone got any ideas how I can fix this?

This is appears to be a know bug and relates to NVidia cards.  Have a 
look at the following bug report:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=182517

Also have a look at the following forum thread:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=447233

If these don't directly help, make sure that you've upgraded to the 
latest RPMs.  Also try changing "nv" to "vesa" and see if that solves 
the mouse issues when restarting X...if so then it's probably definitely 
with the "nv" driver.

Cheers,

Daniel Hedlund
daniel at digitree.org