Thanks Ian and Mikkel On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 23:52 +0100, Ian Malone wrote: > William Case wrote: > > Hi; > > > > Possibly a known disappearing pointer XOrg bug affecting the nv > driver. Two options: > > 1. Continue with the nv driver, disable hardware cursor acceleration. > Look for a section in xorg.conf containing the Driver "nv" line and > add the SWCursor line as below: > > Section "Device" > Option "SWCursor" "True" > Identifier "Videocard0" > Driver "nv" > EndSection > > > 2. Use the nvidia driver. You may need to disable graphical boot by > removing the rhgb option from your kernel line in /etc/grub.conf. Worked like a charm. A catch-22. If I had asked sooner, I could have saved myself a couple of hours. However, if I had asked sooner, the solution would have been known by everybody, leaving me looking extremely stupid and lazy. One thing that is always true: "ya can't win". -- Regards Bill