Mouse Pointer Missing On Startup

[Jim Duda]

I'm running Fedora 7 on a Compaq F572US laptop, with proprietary Nvidia 
drivers.  During boot, the mouse and mouse pointer appear through rhgb. 
  However, many times, after boot and the gdm login screen appears, the 
mouse pointer disappears.  The mouse still works, since when I move the 
mouse I can get different boxes to high lite, however the pointer itself 
is missing.  This doesn't happen always, but enough to make it 
frustrating and warrant a query for help :-)  I have to continuously 
reboot until I get a mouse pointer in gdm.

Can anyone explain how this can happen and what I can investigate?

Thanks,

Jim