Hi

I have installed X.org X11 version 7.2.0 and xfce4 desktop environment on my Gentoo vm. My problem is that X won't show cursors. I installed X via portage. After installing there wasn't any cursors installed, but I tried installing some cursor themes, but none of them works. There are index.theme-files in cursors directories. I've tried to create default/index.theme and write this in it:
Mouse is working perfectly, I can press buttons, open menus, &c. so I don't think it's necessary to post my xorg.conf's mouse section.
Running vm on innotek VirtualBox.

Try option
Option "SWCursor" "boolean"
or
Option "HWCursor" "boolean"

in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf Device section, the option should be supported by your
Driver module (see same section), it usually is.

(boolean means True or False)

Hernan

Nope, doesn't work. Tried using both options with both bools, but doesn't work.

mmmm I guess we are 100% sure that the driver in use is the correct driver, are we?
the best in case there are two available (a frequent problem with on board controllers). You can use discover to check, or better
X -configure that will produce the back-bone for a new xorg.conf file (outputs to /root/xorg.conf), X should be down to test.

Post the results and the lspci results so we know what is under the hood.

Hernan

This may seem a daft question but do you have the following in make.conf?
I have found odd problems occurring when I have forgotten this in the past.
This may be of help to you

Mouse Wiki

discover output:
/root/xorg.conf.new's mouse section:
Doesn't make any difference.

lspci output:

OK, my fault, I did not know your level of expertise and posted not-clear-enough
indications.
When I suffered the missing cursor sindrome, the problem was at the "Device" part not at the "ImputDevice" part. What we need to know is which is your video card.
In my not-too-old but not up-to-day pci-ids, there is no entry for 80ee:whatever
(no entry in yours either, you may want to try updating (utility update-pciids),
this means that your video card is made by a relatively new maker.
X -configure tests the modules and will tell you which modules work on your VIDEO-card. The sections needed are
Section "Module"
and
Section "Device"
as an example, mine says:
Section "Device"
Identifier "VIA Technologies, Inc. S3 Unichrome Pro VGA Adapter"
Driver "via"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Running on an xterm "xvinfo" would also give important information, it may show no-info if you do not have video extensions supported so far by the driver.

If the only driver that works is the "vesa" driver, you either have to search which is the present support status for your hardware, and upgade it to most recent developments. One of the standard solutions with X is to upgrade to most recent version, but you may have to go to a driver being developed.

The options "HWCursor" and "SWCursor" correspond to the Section "Device", and may or may not be supported by the Driver you are using. After altering /etc/X11/xorg.conf, you must restart X for changes to take effect. This sort is testing is best done in Single user mode (init 1), you just launch X as
X
and zap the driver after checking the effect of the change made (<ctl><alt><bkspace>) (check there is NO DontZap option in xorg.conf)


good luck
Hernan

Sorry, my bad.

Tried applying HWcursor and SWcursor options in Device-section in the beginning, not in the InputDevice-section.

Device-section:
I'm running this system in Innotek Virtualbox vm, that should explain that vboxvideo and unknown vendor and board. Maybe I should turn to the Virtualbox forum and ask which sort of videocard virtualbox card emulates and which drivers do I need - if available.

Module-section:
xvinfo:

OK, this problem apperas to be specific of your box, take a look to:
http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/558
to make it short, change

Driver "mouse"
to
Driver "vboxmouse"

Hernan

Thanks, it worked! Good to say in this point, but I should've realized in the beginning to search for vbox-specific solution.

-
Joonas