Description of problem: After complete installation of Fedora Core 5 on AMD Athlon 64 machine, mouse pointer disappears after login screen appears. However full functionalites of mouse can be used. The problem is visiblity after login screen appearance. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedore Core 5 (Latest) How reproducible: Can install on AMD Athon 64 machine, using x86_64 iso files that are available on any mirror sites on http://fedora.redhat.com/Download/ site Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install on AMD Athlon 64 machine 2.After installation wait for login screen 3.When login screen appears problem can be visible. Actual results: Mouse pointer not visible after loging in. Expected results: Mouse pointer should appear Additional info: When SUSE 10.0 was used this problem didnot occur, however SUSE was for 32 bit processor.
Do you really mean login on text console?
Dear Karel, I would split the process of loading Fedora on system in 2 parts 1. Booting process where all drivers and other software are getting loaded 2. After booting is completed, an user login screen appears, where the user has to text type his userid and further password, enabling user to start using Fedora. Well the problem starts from part 2, i.e. after entire booting is over (i guess).
I have the same problem after installing FC6 on an AMD Athlon machine. Additional notes: -The mouse cursor is visible while Fedora 6 is booting, and disappears when the pretty Fedora graphic with the login screen appears. -The mouse behaves correctly except that the cursor is invisible. -Changing the mouse cursor has no effect. -The "Highlight mouse on Ctrl" feature works correctly, so you can kind of sort of find the mouse while you're trying to fix this. (Look under the system mouse menu.) -I am using a Logitech USB mouse that works just fine on another computer, specifically, an x86 box running FC3. -My AMD Athlon based PC is a dual boot system, and the mouse that isn't working with Fedora 6 works just fine under Windows NT.
Okay, I'm an idiot. I meant FC5.
This may be related to bug 193520, 185268, 185820, and 185217. I also have an nvidia graphics card similar to the one mentioned there, specifically the GeForce 6150LE. Satish- Which graphics card do you have? BTW, if you happen to have bought the same Compaq sale model I did, I'd love to compare notes with you. Drop me an e-mail if you're so inclined. Please let us know if you try any of the work arounds listed. It may be a couple of days before I get back to this myself. Some workarounds are mentioned at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=185820 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193520
Hi Karel, I was playing around the FC5 and could find something that might be interesting for de-bugging. 1. For Windows and FC5 system after GRUB2 is being loaded, i hit the ENTER key to enter into options for OS menu. (I mean list of OS present on the system. 2. After this i press 'a' for Fedora Core 5, as mentioned below (This changes the kernal arguments ?, Options present are e, a and c for command prompt) 3. After the bash prompt appears, with backspace i just delete that appears on the prompt( if i remember it is something like ro = \Fedora....(many characters.. rhgb quiet IF I'M, NOT WRONG). Then press ENTER key to go ahead with booting of FC5. (Interestingly this time systems booting in a different way, i guess) 4. And Voila !!! we have mouse pointer that is visible, with its full functionalities through out the session. I have not yet explored the impact of this procedure, but atleast i get to work around in a peaceful way. Hope this helps to understand the problem in a different way.
Satish, if you just delete the "rhgb" part, does that workaround your problem? (instead of the whole line)
Hi Ray, I have not explored this aspect i shall do that and come back to you. By the way what does it mean/signify. Satish
If "rhgb" is on the kernel command line then it will launch a graphical program during the boot process to show status instead of just booting on the text console.
Satish dropped me a note to say .... > Well i have an AMD Athlon 64 with nVidia Graphics card > with GeForce 6100 on Gigabyte motherboard... I'm sorry to disappoint you, >since my computer is an assembled and not branded. Secondly i'm from INDIA, so > i guess hardware at your place (if i'm not wrong, > USA), is faster and cheaper than in here, Actually, it sounds a lot like my long-shelf-life sale PC from Staples and a lot like a duplicate of bug 185217. Did I understand correctly that they had several workarounds, but were waiting on nVidia for a permanent fix?
Satish dropped me a note to say .... > Well i have an AMD Athlon 64 with nVidia Graphics card > with GeForce 6100 on Gigabyte motherboard... I'm sorry to disappoint you, >since my computer is an assembled and not branded. Secondly i'm from INDIA, so > i guess hardware at your place (if i'm not wrong, > USA), is faster and cheaper than in here, Actually, it sounds a lot like my long-shelf-life sale PC from Staples and a lot like a duplicate of bug 182517. Did I understand correctly that they had several workarounds, but were waiting on nVidia for a permanent fix?
Hi Ray, As mentioned i tried removing 'rhgb quiet' from the prompt and allow the machine to boot with other command arguments. And yes it is affirmative that mouse pointer is visible on the screen. So i guess we can pinpoint that, grahic based booting has missed something that has not during booting on text console. Can we take a hint from this ? However after i complete working with FC5 and logout to return to the user login screen, the mouse pointer is again invisible. So i have to reboot and follow the painful proces, till FC5 team finds an solution to this teething problem. Also i have recently read BUG 193520 as referred by Darlene Ford, and the explanation from Mike Harris. It seems that we with this problem since before. So i would say sorry for the trouble, since it being already handled by ..... Hi Darlene, Yes i think you have done a lot of BUG STUDY. The problems are definately long pending ones, especially for nVidia Chipset. Also the video problems are indeed present as they are mentioned. (The same videos run good in P4 machines with FC5) Also Mike Harris mentions that we may have to wait for FC 6 for this issue to be resolved. How long for FC 6 ?
If I edit the string "rhgb" out of /etc/grub.conf my PC also boots up with a working mouse. I didn't try logging out and back in again yet. Satish, do you get any improvment in your results if you edit the grub.conf file and reboot? [Cursing the young whippersnapper who decided not to include emacs in the default install. Kids these days...] [The original nv-mouse discussion is rather technical. Willing to post a summary for the casual user if anyone expresses an interest.]
Nope. Still loses mouse when I log out, even with the grub.conf edit.