mouse disappears when desktops finishes launching
 

Hello,

I have just installed Fedora Core 6 fresh from the Fedora project server.
When i log as root, then "startx", my mouse first appears, but then disappears after initialization of desktop is finished.
I have tried to:
- change the mouse same result
- change from a mouse connected to the mouse port to a new mouse connected on a USB port: same result
- i launched system-config-display instead of the desktop. The window appear, and the mouse functions until i click on anything on the screen, then the mouse disappears.

Any idea?

As a first help, how can i kill the Xserver daemon once it is launched. I would like at least to return to text mode instead of pulling the power cord.

Thanks for your valuable help

Hi,

I don't know about your mouse problems, but you can kill X using [Ctrl]-[Alt]-[Backspace].

I hope this helped at least a bit. :)

Thanks for the tip.

Much appreciated :-)

Bertrand

I've experienced this problem a couple times with FC6 installs on my system.

To fix disappearing mouse: edit xorg.conf and add this line to the video card section:

Luck!

~Eric

Eric,

I added the line you told me about....
It works fine now :-)

Many thanks!

Regards

Bertrand

Your welcome, Bertrand! Glad it worked for you.

Have FUN! :)

~Eric