Mouse cursor disappearing on boot

[Igor Lyubimov]

When I log-in into lubuntu 13.10 with kernel 3.8 (autologin for my user is set) no mouse cursor is shown, but the mouse functionality is in tact. After I switch to console (Ctrl+Alt+F2) and come back (Alt+F7), the mouse cursor is visible.

[Igor Lyubimov (mr-july)]

here some log files (Xorg.0.log, dmesg, syslog)

[Marc Dietrich (marvin24)]

I've also seems this before. I wonder if it is caused by the modesetting driver or a bug in the tegra gnu kernel driver. I'll ask tagr on IRC.

[Marc Dietrich (marvin24)]

using
    Option "SWcursor"
in the device section fixes the problem for me. Can you confirm Igor?

[Igor Lyubimov (mr-july)]

Yes, I can confirm, but I'm not sure if it has no side effects, because I just renamed /etc/X11/xorg.conf.failsafe to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and added

Option "HWcursor" "false"
Option "SWcursor" "true"

But the rest of the file is the same as xorg.conf.failsafe! I'm not sure if it's correct.

And I don't know how make it better, beacuse

X -configure

fails. :-(

[Marc Dietrich (marvin24)]

/etc/X11/xorg.conf is not longer used these days, but I may still work. If you look in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d you will find some config files. I have 61-opentegra.conf (renamed from 61-modesetting.conf). I think there is no HWcursor option, SWcursor true implies HWcursor false. The modesetting driver seems to be ok btw. It may take some time to fix this in opentegra, but at least I notified the original author. Thanks for testing!