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GriffinClubMerv
January 18th, 2011, 10:16 PM
Last night I performed the upgrade routine from 10.04 to 10.10 on an Aspire One netbook. The netbook performed flawlessly under 10.04. Since the upgrade the computer boots fine, except no cursor ever appears. Nor is there the "ghost cursor" that I have read about. What do I do now, attempt a reinstall using an ISO image instead of the upgrade routine, perhaps?

Saghaulor
January 18th, 2011, 10:32 PM
For starters, don't blow up the forums with redundant posts. Wait and I'm sure someone will help you.

Saghaulor
January 18th, 2011, 10:35 PM
For starters, don't blow up the forums with redundant posts. Wait and I'm sure someone will help you.

Sorry, I think there was something going on with the forums, so I don't think the multiple postings was your fault. My apologies for laying down the hammer.

drs305
January 18th, 2011, 10:40 PM
There can be a lot of reasons for this. I recently had my 10.10 boot to a completely blank screen, with no cursor. (I found I could restart by pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL twice, then pressing ENTER.)

For me, the issue was a new line in the Grub2 boot file. When booting, at the GRUB menu (or hold down SHIFT during boot to display the menu):

Press 'e' to edit the highlighted menuentry.

Look for the following line:

set gfxpayload=$linux_gfx_mode

If you have this line, move the cursor to the start of the line and hold down the DEL key to remove the line.

Press CTRL-x to boot.

GriffinClubMerv
January 20th, 2011, 12:39 AM
My GNU GRUB Reads:

recordfail
insmod ext2
set root= ' (hd0,1) '
search --no floppy --ff-uuid --set 65830467-851a-455f-98db-5879d6e35\
8db-5879d6e3546a ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-22-generic

***

As you can see there is no set gfxpayload line to remove or modify.

Ideas?

drs305
January 20th, 2011, 01:37 PM
My GNU GRUB Reads:

recordfail
insmod ext2
set root= ' (hd0,1) '
search --no floppy --ff-uuid --set 65830467-851a-455f-98db-5879d6e35\
8db-5879d6e3546a ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-22-generic

***

As you can see there is no set gfxpayload line to remove or modify.

Ideas?

Did you copy the entry? What you have posted is missing the 'linux' line, which should look something like this:

linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic root=/dev/sda1 ro quiet splash

If it was merely a typo, you could try adding 'nomodeset' to the end of the line.

linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic root=/dev/sda1 ro quiet splash nomodeset

GriffinClubMerv
January 22nd, 2011, 12:56 AM
Sorry, it was a typo - there was a Linux line, just as you described. I added nomodeset as suggested but it made no difference - still no cursor.