Re: upon starting the desktop, the cursor is an ugly square

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday crashcourse ca>]

On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Pat Kane wrote:

> On 4/3/09, Pat Kane <pekane52 gmail com> wrote:
> > I have a similar problem (see Bug 493772).
> > On my F11b system, with i915 onboard graphics, the cursor
> > is never visible.
>
> adding "nomodeset" to the grub kernel line works around the bug.

  are you referring specifically to fixing that issue under i915
graphics?  since i have an ATI video chipset, but i don't have the
system in question so that i could test it at the minute.

rday
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