Invisible mouse pointer problem
Tom Diehl
tdiehl at rogueind.com
Fri Jun 29 01:45:51 UTC 2007
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Karl Larsen wrote:
> Tom Diehl wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just installed f7 on a new box. Once the machine is up and running the
>> mouse pointer disappears. The mouse is working because if I move it
>> carefully I can use it to navigate the menus at the top of the screen. I
>> was
>> able to turn on the option to highlight the mouse when the ctrl key is
>> pressed
>> which allows me to kind of operate the machine.
>>
>> I have installed all of the updates but I cannot figure out how to get the
>> mouse pointer to show up. Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this.
>>
>> I am not running any of the nVidia propriatory modules and I would like to
>> avoid that if possible.
>>
>> Below is the output of lspci:
>>
>> [root at tigger2 pts0 ~]# lspci
>> 00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
>> 00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
>> 00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
>> 00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
>> 00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
>> 00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
>> 00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
>> 00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
>> 00:02.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
>> 00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C51G [GeForce 6100]
>> (rev a2)
>> 00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
>> 00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a3)
>> 00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a3)
>> 00:0a.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a3)
>> 00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
>> 00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
>> 00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE (rev f1)
>> 00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev
>> f1)
>> 00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
>> 00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev
>> a2)
>> 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
>> HyperTransport Technology Configuration
>> 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
>> Address Map
>> 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
>> DRAM Controller
>> 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
>> Miscellaneous Control
>> 03:05.0 Communication controller: Conexant HSF 56k Data/Fax Modem
>> 03:08.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5788 Gigabit
>> Ethernet (rev 03)
>> [root at tigger2 pts0 ~]#
>>
>> Suggestions?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
> We need a lot more information about your computer. Does it include
> Windows? Does the mouse work there?
No windows on the machine. The mouse does work normally in anaconda. What
other info would you like?
>
> I loaded F7 twice and then deleted it twice but the pointer worked both
> times.
I too have it running on 2 other boxes and it works as advertised. I really
like it. FWIW the mouse pointer is visible during the graphical boot. It
just disappears once the login screen comes up.
Regards,
--
Tom Diehl tdiehl at rogueind.com Spamtrap address mtd123 at rogueind.com
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