I observed this behavior after installing Ubuntu 10.04 to a new hard drive. The cursor was working properly initially, but disappeared when I changed the screen resolution. After that, it behaved as noted above -- locate cursor worked, mouse buttons worked, ctrl-alt-F1 then ctrl- alt-F7 restored cursor, etc.
The installation of Ubuntu 10.04 on my old disk did not have this behavior. I checked that old file system, and there was an xorg.conf file there. The new system did not have xorg.conf. When I copied the old system's xorg.conf into the new system, the cursor returned with no problems, even after changing resolutions or rebooting. Unfortunately, the old xorg.conf only uses the generic VESA driver. I may have had to use that driver because of problems when I first set up Ubuntu; it's too long ago to remember. The new xorg.conf generated as described in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto uses the Intel driver for my system (Intel 82845G/GL/GE). With that xorg.conf, the mouse cursor disappears. -- no mouse cursor https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/563555 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gdm in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
