Hi all,

I have a GA-M55plus-S3G mainboard, where I have installed Windows xp sp2 and
tried varius flavours of Linux (FC6, FC6_64, FC8, Ubuntu), but all linux
flavours have the same problem, they do not display the mouse pointer. I
also tried different mouses (BENQ, Trust, Tekker) both USB or PS2 without
success. Windows works fine!!

Does anyone have a clue of what could be going on?

Thanks a lot
Ivan

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Ivan staggered into the Black Sun and said:
> I have a GA-M55plus-S3G mainboard, where I have tried varius [distros]
> of Linux (FC6, FC6_64, FC8, Ubuntu), but all linux [distros] have the
> same problem: They do not display the mouse pointer.

This is probably an X config problem. What's your video chipset? For
the longest time, some video cards required the "sw_cursor" Option to be
set in xorg.conf, otherwise they didn't display the mouse cursor. If
you don't know what your video chipset is, you can find out by doing
"/sbin/lspci | grep VGA". Post that info for us.

> I also tried different [mice]

Wouldn't help.

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Dances With Crows wrote:

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> ["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.x.]
> Ivan staggered into the Black Sun and said:
>> I have a GA-M55plus-S3G mainboard, where I have tried varius [distros]
>> of Linux (FC6, FC6_64, FC8, Ubuntu), but all linux [distros] have the
>> same problem: They do not display the mouse pointer.
>
> This is probably an X config problem. What's your video chipset? For
> the longest time, some video cards required the "sw_cursor" Option to be
> set in xorg.conf, otherwise they didn't display the mouse cursor. If
> you don't know what your video chipset is, you can find out by doing
> "/sbin/lspci | grep VGA". Post that info for us.

sorry but could not find where/how to set sw_cursor in man or internet..

00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C51G [GeForce 6100]
reva2)

hope it helps
>
>> I also tried different [mice]

ups.. I new that..
>
> Wouldn't help.
>

cheers
ivan