** Description changed:
- The mouse cursor is gone when Oneiric starts. The mouse itself is
+ The mouse cursor is gone when the GUI starts. The mouse itself is
responding, but the pointer is invisible. Very annoying. I do have a
workaround. One must simply restart the lightdm interface with the
following command in the terminal: "sudo /etc/init.d/lightdm restart".
Mouse cursor is suddenly visible again.
+
+ -----
+
+ Expanded Workaround confirmed by several users courtesy of Mark Kirkwood
+ (mark-kirkwood-k) in comment 2:
+
+ A. TEST
+
+ 1. hold down shift immediately at boot until the GRUB boot manager menu shows
+ 2. highlight the 'Ubuntu' entry and press 'e' to Edit it
+ 3. navigate to the line that begins "linux ..."
+ 4. navigate to the word "splash" and delete it
+ 5. boot using the modified setting by pressing Ctrl+X or F10
+
+
+ B. If the test change caused the cursor to show:
+
+ 1. edit "/etc/default/grub/" (will need sudo/gksudo/kdesudo for elevated
privileges); remove "splash" from the variable GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=.
Save the file.
+ 2. "sudo update-grub". This will make the change to the kernel command-line
that was done manually in TEST A.
+ 3. Reboot and test
+
+
+ I've added the 'plymouth' package as a possible cause of the issue. It is
likely more a case of the console being put into the wrong graphics mode to
support the graphical splash.
+ -----
I am using an old ASUS A6000 A6V laptop with the following hardware
information (obtained via "lspci")
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express
Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 04)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM Express PCI Express
Root Port (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family)
High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family)
USB UHCI #1 (rev 04)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family)
USB UHCI #2 (rev 04)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family)
USB UHCI #3 (rev 04)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family)
USB UHCI #4 (rev 04)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family)
USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 04)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d4)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge
(rev 04)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family)
IDE Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus
Controller (rev 04)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility X700
(PCIE)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8001 Gigabit
Ethernet Controller (rev 13)
02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev b3)
02:01.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev
08)
02:01.2 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host
Adapter (rev 17)
02:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter
(rev 08)
02:03.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2]
Network Connection (rev 05)
I appreciate any help on this matter to get this small bug fixed.
Dennis
** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: plymouth (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Triaged
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