Description of problem:When Fedora took me to X server through autologin in Fedora 8 Test 2 KDE LiveCD, the mouse pointer just disappeared. It was visible while Fedora was starting all the services. Well, I used to get the same invisible mouse pointer in FC5, FC6 and F7 too. But after adding a line <Options "HWCursor" "off"> in screen section in xorg.conf and on relogin everything used to work fine. But in Live CD I tried adding the same line and it didn't work out. One more thing, all the other effects work, like I can click object, mouse over effect is working fine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: The mouse pointer in invisible in X server. Expected results: The mouse pointer should be visible. Additional info: My machine details are Mobo - Gigabyte nVidia nForce 4 with nVidia GeForce 6100 onboard Mouse - MicroSoft Optical USB mouse. I think other details are not of any use to this bug. I can't provide the X-log and all because on launching beryl everything crashed and it thrown me the command line and there of I couldn't start the X. So, just rebooting without copying the logs anywhere :(
I see similar effects on F8, KDE, ASUS GeForce 6150 onboard video chip, xorg "nv" driver. No compiz/beryl, no rhgb, nothing special. For me the cursor is almost always visible, but every now and then, it just disappears; IIRC most often when logging out and back in, but sometimes also after idling and coming back from monitor suspend state. I haven't tried touching the HWCursor setting nor actually tweaked xorg.conf at all. Will try that now. The same box has never before F8 exhibited this behaviour, no such problems eg. in F7. Before F8 it has always had the proprietary NVIDIA display drivers installed, now the regular xorg nv.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 182517 ***