From: Kyle McMartin <kyle(a)mcmartin.ca>
Subject: Re: no X cursor with recent kernels
To: "Steven I Usdansky" <usdanskys(a)rocketmail.com>
Cc: "fedora test" <fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com>
Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009, 9:38 AM
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 07:00:57AM -0800, Steven I Usdansky
wrote:
> What's up with the kernel? I go away for three
weeks, and when I come back, update to today's Rawhide
(kernel-PAE-2.6.29-0.131.rc5.git2.fc11.i686.rpm), and
reboot, I find I have no cursor displayed in X. At first I
thought it was GNOME, but the same problem occurs when using
TWM. Reverting to an earlier version of X didn't solve
the problem, but reverting to
> kernel-2.6.29-0.73.rc3.git2.fc11.i686 gives me a
displayed cursor again.
> Hardware is a 5-year old Shuttle with "Intel
Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated
Graphics Device"
> (full smolt profile at
>
http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_a4979b32-55a5-4382-9dc1-a3b9ea11addc)
> Bugzilla time, and if so, against the kernel?
>
does booting with nomodeset fix it?