Re: [kde-linux] mouse pointer disappears

On Friday 26 January 2007 05:15, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
Em Quinta 25 Janeiro 2007 21:18, Richard Pace escreveu:
Hi:
Posted this on SuSE's list also. No response yet.

Running SuSE 10.2 on HP Pavilion AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor
3800+. KDE 3.5.5 "release 45.2".

My mouse pointer disappears every so often.  The mouse is still working,
so to speak - I just can't see it.  After the mouse pointer disappears,
using keyboard controls, I have tried changing personal settings in KDE
to a new mouse scheme.  That does not help.  Even restarting KDE does not
help.  So far, only a reboot restores the mouse pointer.

Comments appreciated.

Is your video card an nvidia one? If so, there's a bug in nvidia driver
that causes exactly this problem with some nvidia cards (not all). The
workaround is to disable hardware cursor in xorg.conf.
Add the following line in the device section for your video card:
Option "HWCursor" "off"
Yes, it is an nvidia card. Here is the device section from xorg.conf:
Section "Device"
BoardName "GeForce 6150 LE"
BusID "0:5:0"
Driver "nv"
Identifier "Device[0]"
Screen 0
VendorName "NVidia"
EndSection

Is absence of "HWCursor" the same as "HWCursor" "off". In SuSE, Yast builds
this file. There is an "options" button where I can select "HWCusor" which
adds "HWCursor" to the Device section. Is the driver default "HWCusor"
so that I need to explicitly edit xorg.conf and add "HWCursor" "off"?

Richard
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