Lost my mouse pointer !!

[William Case]

Thanks Ian and Mikkel


On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 23:52 +0100, Ian Malone wrote:
> William Case wrote:
> > Hi;
> > 
> 
> Possibly a known disappearing pointer XOrg bug affecting the nv
> driver.  Two options:
> 
> 1. Continue with the nv driver, disable hardware cursor acceleration.
> Look for a section in xorg.conf containing the Driver "nv" line and
> add the SWCursor line as below:
> 
> Section "Device"
>          Option      "SWCursor" "True"
>          Identifier  "Videocard0"
>          Driver      "nv"
> EndSection
> 
> 
> 2. Use the nvidia driver.  You may need to disable graphical boot by
> removing the rhgb option from your kernel line in /etc/grub.conf.

Worked like a charm.  A catch-22.  If I had asked sooner, I could have
saved myself a couple of hours.  However, if I had asked sooner, the
solution would have been known by everybody, leaving me looking
extremely stupid and lazy.  

One thing that is always true: "ya can't win".

-- 
Regards Bill