Invisible mouse pointer problem

[Karl Larsen]

Tom Diehl wrote:
> 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,
>
    Hi Tom, well then you have a REAL Mystery :-)

My guess is it's the video card or the monitor. Yes it worked with the 
simple anacanda loader but when it switched to full color something 
changed and the cusor is hidden. What a wierd problem :-!

Karl