New Fedora user, needing some guidance

disciplineHC · #1 11th January 2008, 10:32 AM

I recently dual booted the latest version of Fedora with Vista.

After the install and the initial boot, everything was fine, with the exception, on Fedora, I could not see my mouse cursor, so I went into the mouse settings, only two tabs were available, the tab where you can choose right or left handed mouse, and the tab where you adjust the sensitivity of your mouse.

Fedora recognizes there is a mouse in use, I can use the mouse to open menus and folders, I just can't see the cursor, does anyone have a solution for this?

PS - I am currently posting from Vista.

linuxpcmancn · #2 11th January 2008, 12:20 PM

i encountered this problem before ,my solution is as follows:
edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and append a line Option "HWCursor" "false" in the section Section Device then logout and try again

good luck!

disciplineHC · #3 12th January 2008, 03:51 AM

Thank you very much!

linuxpcmancn · #4 12th January 2008, 07:43 AM

i was wondering whether it's a bug or not.(or a offical known issue),this happens on some NVIDIA video card,but just happens on Fedora.i have tried other distros but never ran into this problem,why?

disciplineHC · #5 12th January 2008, 07:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by linuxpcmancn

i encountered this problem before ,my solution is as follows:
edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and append a line Option "HWCursor" "false" in the section Section Device then logout and try again

good luck!

So I tried this, and when I VI'ed the xorg.conf file, there was no "HWCursor" entry in it under the Section Device, so I tried manually entering it, and that opened up a whole new mess, but I managed to be able to fix it.

So now I'm stuck on the original problem, I have an invisible mouse on Fedora. Does anyone know a way that will defintiely fix this? Is there any patches for it?

linuxpcmancn · #6 12th January 2008, 08:07 AM

Sorry for my useless suggestion ,but that's very strange and really confused me.i always use this way to fix the "an invisible mouse" problem.BTW,what's type of your video card?
here is my xorg.conf

Code:

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "single head configuration"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
	Option	    "XkbModel" "pc105"
	Option	    "XkbLayout" "us+inet"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	ModelName    "Monitor 1024x768"
	HorizSync    31.5 - 90.0
	VertRefresh  75.0 - 75.0
	Option	    "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Videocard0"
	Driver      "nv"
	Option	    "HWcursor" "false"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Videocard0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
		Modes    "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Can u post your xorg.conf

disciplineHC · #7 12th January 2008, 08:15 AM

I can post my xorg.conf file if someone tells me how to take a screen shot in Linux, though it will take me a little while as I'll pretty much be blindly clicking to do everything.

As for my video card, it's an NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE

linuxpcmancn · #8 12th January 2008, 08:26 AM

try "scrot",a comand-line-based screen shot soft,try yum or download it manually

BTW,my card is also NVIDIA,,IMO,my method can help,are u sure that u type the right line and right place ,so im curious about your xorg.conf .Please refer to my xorg.conf seriously

disciplineHC · #9 12th January 2008, 08:44 AM

I'll post it in a few minutes.

disciplineHC · #10 12th January 2008, 08:55 AM

# Xorg configuration created by pyxf86config

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us+inet"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nv"

EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

That is my xorg.conf File

But an odd thing happened, when I booted up Fedora this time, I can see my mouse, in fact, I'm posting this from Fedora. The only thing that occurred from the last time I booted Fedora, was I tried manually entering the HWCursor value into the xorg.conf file, then had to remove it because Fedora didn't like me fooling around with it.

Odd.

disciplineHC · #11 12th January 2008, 08:58 AM

Now the only problem is getting my screen resolution higher than 800 x 600, anyone have any suggestions?

JohnVV · #12 12th January 2008, 09:00 AM

hi check and see if this , or something similar , is in xorg.conf

Code:

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

as to the screen res. take a look at
Applications / System Tools / NVIDIA X Server Settings
under --
X Server Display configuration
there is a drop-down menu for the screen resolution

linuxpcmancn · #13 12th January 2008, 09:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JohnVV

hi check and see if this , or something similar , is in xorg.conf

Code:

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

as to the screen res. take a look at
Applications / System Tools / NVIDIA X Server Settings
under --
X Server Display configuration
there is a drop-down menu for the screen resolution

Obviously,he has no Compatible NVIDIA Driver installed.

So,without a driver,type "sudo system-config-display" in a terminal,then configure the monitor with a resolution u wanted.logout and then u can get a higher resolution.As to refresh rate,u can refer to my xorg.conf .

linuxpcmancn · #14 12th January 2008, 09:55 AM

first add livna repo:

Code:

su
Passord:
rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm
rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-livna

then

Code:

yum install kmod-nvidia

reboot

use 'nvidia-settings' to configure your display

disciplineHC · #15 12th January 2008, 09:57 AM

I found the right driver that I need, downloaded it, when I go to install it, it says I'm running an X Server and I need to disable it, can someone give me a walk through on how to do this?

I'm used to working on Solaris Sun 9, so I'm still learning the ins and outs of Fedora.

PS - The help that has been offered has been wonderful, thank you.