Under >=gentoo-sources-2.6.35, X mouse cursor is invisible - that is, its presence can be detected e.g. highlighting of form-fields on hover, but the actual cursor is not drawn onscreen. All 2.6.34-* kernels have been OK. Hardware: 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02) Relevant packages: x11-libs/libdrm-2.4.21 media-libs/mesa-7.8.2 x11-base/xorg-server-1.8.2 x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.12.0 (all have been rebuilt in the given order since install of 2.6.35 kernel) emerge --info: Portage 2.1.9.3 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.4.4, glibc-2.12.1-r1, 2.6.33-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.33-gentoo-r1-i686-Intel-R-_Celeron-R-_CPU_2.60GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 19:45:01 +0000 distcc 3.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.1_p7 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11 dev-lang/python: 2.6.5-r3, 3.1.2-r4 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.6.3 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.3-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.67 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.4-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.10 sys-devel/make: 3.81-r2 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.35 (sys-kernel/linux-headers) ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -w" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /etc/pam.d /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -w" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests ccache distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages news protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.blueyonder.co.uk/" LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en_GB" MAKEOPTS="-j7" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/dev/shm" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://brazil/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdparanoia cdr chm cli clucene consolekit cracklib crypt cups cupsddk cxx dbus dga dio dri dts dvd dvdread emboss encode exif faac faad fam ffmpeg firefox flac flash foomaticdb fortran fuse gdbm gif gimp glitz gnutls gpm hal htmlhandbook iconv ieee1394 imagemagick innodb java java6 javascript jpeg kde kde4 lcms ldap libnotify libwww mad madwifi matroska mikmod mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mplayer msn mudflap mysql mysqli ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin odbc ogg opengl openmp oss pam pango pcmcia pcntl pcre pdf perl php plasma png posix ppds pppd python qalculate qt3support qt4 qwt readline reflection rss samba scanner sdl semantic-desktop sesame2 session sharedmem soap sockets spell sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd theora threads tiff tk truetype unicode usb vcd vhosts vorbis wifi win32codecs x264 x86 xcb xcomposite xine xinerama xml xmlrpc xorg xsl xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_GB" NETBEANS_MODULES="apisupport groovy gsf harness ide identity j2ee java mobility nb php soa visualweb webcommon websvccommon xml" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="i810 intel fbdev vesa" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
this is known to arch too (I've seen it personally) https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20373
The upstream bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29413 reports this as fixed with this patch: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=897493504addc5609f04a2c4f73c37ab972c29b2 which is in linux-2.6.35.6 which is in genpatches-2.6.35-9 which is used by gentoo-sources-2.6.35-r8 and later kernels. Can you please test with gentoo-sources-2.6.35-r9 and post the results.
Cursor has returned in 2.6.35-gentoo-r9 (skipped -r8), thanks.
Marking as fixed per comment #3.
