Re: Disappearing mouse

[Robert Brockway <robert@timetraveller.org>]

On Fri, 3 Sep 2010, John A. Sullivan III wrote:

> Has anyone experienced this in Debian? Is there a definitive cause and,
> more importantly, a real solution? Thanks - John

I had this with an NVidia chipset (don't recall the exact chipset right 
now).

I had to add a SWCursor option to prevent cursor going invisible from time 
to time under Lenny.  Once it went invisible the X server would need to be 
restarted to recover it.  The cursor was just invisible - it always worked 
perfectly if only you could guess where it was.

This is an example from xorg.conf:

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Configured Video Device"
        Driver "Vesa"
        Option "SWCursor" "yes"
EndSection

Cheers,

Rob

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