no X cursor with recent kernels

[Steven I Usdansky]

--- On Thu, 2/19/09, Kyle McMartin <kyle at mcmartin.ca> wrote:

> From: Kyle McMartin <kyle at mcmartin.ca>
> Subject: Re: no X cursor with recent kernels
> To: "Steven I Usdansky" <usdanskys at rocketmail.com>
> Cc: "fedora test" <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
> Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009, 9:38 AM
> 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?