[PLUG] Invisible Cursor

[Bill Thoen]

Thanks, Daniel!   Putting :
Option "HWCursor" "Off"
in the Devices section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf did the trick!

Now I have a new problem... Now if I run startx too many times, the 
"power daemon" refuses to to reload. I'm getting tired of chasing these 
little bugs just because I want to do things differently from the norm, 
so maybe I'll just boot up in graphic mode and be done with the stupid 
thing! I just like the black background and white text of the text 
inteface better than the white background and black font of the terminal 
window when I need to do any coding or editing, but it seems like it's a 
bit of a chore to get it on this machine and distro.

Warning to other clueless Linux newbies... Don't buy a machine with 
nVidia chips in it and expect smooth sailing with FC5!!  But if you do, 
then at least you can get great help on this forum!

- Bill Thoen

Daniel Hedlund wrote:

> 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
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