Comment 28 for bug 1390628

I'm running on an Intel NUC NUC5i7RYH with boot disk as SM-951 NVMe (MZVPV512HDGL) and secondary disk Samsung Evo 850.

I fresh installed 14.04.3 LTS and experience this problem.

Solutions, such as the following, don't predictably work for me:
* exec unity-settings-daemon
* sudo gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.cursor active false
* sudo modprobe -r psmouse ; sudo modprobe psmouse

I have the following packages installed related to what's mentioned in this bug:
ii gnome-settings-daemon 3.8.6.1-0ubuntu11.2 amd64 daemon handling the GNOME session settings
ii ubuntu-settings 14.04.5 all default settings for the Ubuntu desktop
ii unity-settings-daemon 14.04.0+14.04.20140606-0ubuntu3 amd64 daemon handling the Unity session settings

Recovering the mouse is employing one or all of the above (the gsettings often being what appears to work MOST times) after about a minute of login time, then logging out and moving the mouse - ensuring it appears before I log in. Of note, what I know works best, is waiting for a while, running one or all of the above commands, and then logging out and back in.

Every boot, 100% of the time, I have no visible mouse however something is tracking mouse movement as I can go between monitors and the login prompt moves between windows.

I'm using unity/gnome. Using gnome classic has not changed the results.

This is highly frustrating.