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I'm having a bit of a weird issue.

We recently got some ex-DC Dell R210 1U servers with Matrox® G200eW video for our development lab at work, and we're looking at using some of them as workstations. I managed to get Ubuntu 19 installed on one to test it out, everything seems to be fine, except that the mouse icon isn't showing. The mouse appears to be working, I can see it light up application icons on the menu bar and within programs, but the actual cursor doesn't show up.

I've had a look online, found a couple of things that people have tried on previous versions of Ubuntu, however they've not worked for me.

1) systemctl restart lightdm / gdm

lightdm wasn't installed, gdm restarted, no mouse icon.

2) Change DE

Installed and switched to Cinnamon (which I was planning on doing anyway), no mouse icon

3) gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.cursor active false

The page I found that had the above command on was for Ubuntu 14.04, however it had worked on "newer versions". No specificity as to which versions. I tried that with and without sudo, with and without a reboot, but still no icon.

I can't see anyone else having this issue, so I wonder if its a hardware thing rather than an Ubuntu thing, but thought I would ask first just in case I'm missing something.

Kind Regards,

B

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One source suggested, for a different video problem, editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf to contain: 

Code:
Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Configured Video Device"
        Driver          "vesa"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "Default Screen"
        Monitor         "Configured Monitor"
        Device          "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

A second and third source mentioned obtaining Matrox video drivers:

mkdir xserver  
cd xserver  
apt-get source xserver-xorg-video-mga  
apt-get install dh-autoreconf xserver-xorg-dev x11proto-video-dev x11proto-fonts-dev x11proto-xf86dri-dev quilt xutils-dev

Should those suggestions not help, please try booting from a LiveUSB of Xubuntu 18.04 LTS and see if that resolves the issue.

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