X - no mouse/pointer

[Jim Cornette]

Jamie Bohr wrote:
> Thank you this was the trick I was missing.  I've done some looking
> (~10 minutes) around and don't quite know how rhgb affects the mouse
> but ha ... it worked and that is all I care about.
> 
> Question: How did you figure this out?  I had just finished installing
> kubuntu to see it  worked and start comparing files.  I hadn't even
> considered boot options in grub.conf.
> 
> Thank you again ....

Jamie,
What was the resolution? Removing rhgb from the startup, adding HWCursor 
"off" or a combination?
I am assuming rhgb was causing the no mouse problem by your response. So 
Karl's advice helped you out.

Jim


> 
> On Jan 1, 2008 1:33 PM, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>> Jim Cornette wrote:
>>> Jamie Bohr wrote:
..
>>>> I have the latest updates installed, the based install (no updates)
>>>> had the same issue.
>>>>
>>> It might be that your mouse is having problems showing. You could try
>>> adding
>>> Option      "HWCursor" "off"
>>> to the xorg.conf file device section.
>>>
>>> I thought this problem was happening on NVidia binary drivers. It
>>> could also be happening with the X provided one.
>>>
>>> Jim
>>>
>>     Also you need to erase the rhgb that follows the kernel name in
>> /root/grub/grub.conf and then it should work ok. These are both required
>> to get the pointer back.
>>
>>
>> Karl


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