Invisible mouse pointer problem

[Tom Diehl]

On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Konstantin Svist wrote:

> I've seen the same problem on F7 install. It most likely has to do with 
> nvidia drivers, and most definitely video drivers in general.

I too suspect as much but...

> As a workaround, you can set the mouse pointer to software rendered mode 
> (normally, the pointer is hardware-accelerated)

How do I switch it?

Regards,

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> Tom Diehl wrote:
>> Hi,
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>> 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.