[Report] Mouse Cursor not appearing

[natsukirei]

Your Issue:

Cursor not rendering

Basically, i have no cursor when loading up the USB from the ISO provided, everything seems to work but this one thing, bluetooth works, wifi works, and i can move around the screen and highlight things but without a visual cursor its very difficult to navigate

Your device's full specs

CPU: Intel i5 12400F
GPU: RX 7600 AMD
Mouse: G603 Logitech

Your OS version

HoloISO_4.1.3_Tweaked-20230630_1117-x86_64.iso

## Your installation type:
ISO on a USB

## Have you updated your installation recently?
Unsure how to from a USB

[zweiler2]

On desktop i assume? Talked to one who had the same issue but he fixed it by setting the mouse cursor to software rendering by creating this file which as you can see i integrated into the ISO and now you are saying otherwise.... Interesting... Try deleting that file and relogin (don't restart).

[natsukirei]

On desktop i assume? Talked to one who had the same issue but he fixed it by setting the mouse cursor to software rendering by creating this file which as you can see i integrated into the ISO and now you are saying otherwise.... Interesting... Try deleting that file and relogin (don't restart).

thanks i moved the discussion here as suggested

and Yeah im on desktop, i tried removing the suggested file under /etc/xorg.conf.d/20-amdgpu.conf by doing sudo su - into root and removing it

I made sure to log out using keyboard shortcuts, and log back in and confirmed the files gone and no luck

Very odd, it works on Chimera OS, maybe they figured out something, and yeah i was reading reddit with that config fix, i thought that would have worked, the AMD 7600 is part of the 7000 series but has its own separate driver in windows due to the design being slightly different to the other cards

Maybe theirs some sort of patch or fix for that card on linuxm, other than this little issue everything runs smooth as hell, better than windows in animations

[natsukirei]

i found this https://forum.manjaro.org/t/mouse-invisible-after-upgrading-to-radeon-rx-7900-xtx/133745

i dont really understand it but it looks slightly different to the other config and more specific to the GPU type

[natsukirei]

found this to https://www.reddit.com/r/pop_os/comments/1022un1/no_mouse_cursor_x11_7900_amd_rdna3/

[zweiler2]

Have you tried any of those fixes and does one work? I can't test for myself as i only have a Nvidia GPU.

[natsukirei]

ill test and let you know, i have work tomorrow so i cant install the OS and risk not having a cursor right now, so im doing what i can with a log out and login

But i wonder if some of that requires a full reboot, modesetting reminds me of nomodeset when booting a linux kernel with drivers to disable the driver

[natsukirei]

tried every fix nothing works it seems, idk why the RX 7600 is so finnicky

I tried removing the xf86-video-amdgpu driver to but the main library requires it as a dependency, the only other fix ive seen is to just use Wayland, which is what i think Chimera OS uses, but i will install Chimera and quickly check their config files to see if anythings different

[natsukirei]

found this https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/10a29lo/x11_mouse_pointer_invisible_after_upgrade_from/

Seems their is an official upstream patch that can fix the issue but its not released yet from what they are saying, i have no idea how to apply patches or how to download it

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-amdgpu/commit/?id=9c959fac3af28d191105f63236096ad456dca614

According to them it definitely fixes the issue and performance issues with SW Cursor.

[natsukirei]

tried modifying /etc/X11/ and made an xorg.conf and relogged, all i get is the - of doom flashing, maybe once that patch is upstream on the xorg amd driver it will work, even if i followed this guide it wont work because i cant seem to install anything on the live USB, if it was installed maybe it would work but yeah.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/zzr2ca/radeon_rx_7900_xtxxt_on_arch_linux_short_guide/

[zweiler2]

I see if i can build xf86-video-amdgpu with that patch.

[zweiler2]

The commit you mentioned is already in git master.
Have you tried installing xf86-video-amdgpu-git from the AUR? Edit: This commit is from last year so it should already be in Archs package. I'll add that to the ISO. Valve's version is 22.0.0 and Arch has 23.0.0.

Please try "sudo pacman -U https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/x/xf86-video-amdgpu/xf86-video-amdgpu-23.0.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst" and if this works please also remove the /etc/xorg.conf.d/20-amdgpu.conf file to see if hardware cursor rendering works too.

[natsukirei]

apologies, ive been at work, i tried pacman -Syu after connecting to wifi on the live usb and i just get a crapload of errors saying "package is newer than etc"

ill give this a try later tonight ( im in australia )

[zweiler2]

I'm in Europe so the timedifference is understandable, but no need to apologise and also no stress.
"Package is newer": thats normal because i updated them on the ISO without any repos. When you find the time please try the "sudo pacman -U" command i mentioned above.

[zweiler2]

Please try the newest ISO release and see if your issue is now fixed.