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philidox
September 28th, 2008, 11:55 PM
My mouse cursor is invisible I know its still there cause I can still highlight things but I gotta kinda guess where the mouse is. When I remote desktop my computer I can see the mouse but it remains invisible on the host computer under gnome as well as kde. Its obviously some type of software/configuration issue can anyone please help! I have an nvidia card that I had to install without gui cause it wouldn't work innately with my monitor. Its an Nvidia 7950 gt. here is the url if you need more specs
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?Item=N82E16814143090

philidox
October 7th, 2008, 11:48 AM
Found the answer! It was in my xorg.conf file. Under the "Device" Section I had to add 'Option "HWCursor" "Off"'. Here is my xorg.conf file with the only part I had to add bolded

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder3) Thu Feb 14 18:20:37 PST 2008

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
Defaultdepth 24
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
Vendorname "NVIDIA Corporation"
Option "HWCursor" "off"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
Inputdevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
Inputdevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
Vendorname "Unknown"
Modelname "Unknown"
Horizsync 30.0 - 110.0
Vertrefresh 50.0 - 150.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Section "Files"
Rgbpath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
EndSection