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    May 20, 2009, 07:22 AM
    My cursor clicks off.
    I have a G4 and use safari for most of my internet usage however I seem to have a recurring problem with my mouse. I can be typing or spending time on one page and after a few seconds my cursor has disappeared and I have to re-click the page to bring the cursor back - this is extremely annoying. Does anyone know what I have done or how to fix this? Please help!

    Many thanks
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    May 20, 2009, 07:37 AM

    Is this a wireless mouse?
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    May 20, 2009, 12:17 PM
    No not wireless. I have changed the mouse twice just in case it was that, but it wasn't :(
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    May 20, 2009, 12:32 PM
    I googled "mouse cursor disappears", and it appears to be a fairly common problem and the general consensus is that it has something to do with your display (video) drivers. Here are a couple of sites that exemplify the problem. The one I cited, below, is for a PC, but it shows the idea.

    NVIDIA Forums > Mouse Disappearing

    mouse pointer keeps disappearing - Tech Support Forum

    "Firstly this is a known problem. ... Its all to do with how the operating system changes the screen resolution. When you or the system alter the screen resolution (like when you exit a game) the graphic card memory has to be completely reconfigured. This will take a while to complete and the mouse pointer layer of the screen suffers.

    Solution 1.
    Go to the NVidia web site and download the latest drivers for you card. The fact that your system is less than a year old means nothing. Make sure you have the latest driver.

    Solution 2.
    Check and make sure that your desktop screen resolution is identical to the screen resolution used in the game. The popular sizes are 640x480, 600x800 or 1024x768. dependent on what size monitor you use and how good your eye sight is.

    Will this fix the problem? No it won't. But it should reduce the amount of time it takes for the mouse pointer to reappear."

    Most of the responses are from people using Windows, but there are plenty of them from people who use Macs (I googled "mouse cursor disappears macintosh"). I'm not sure if you can update your video drivers or not.
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    May 27, 2009, 10:02 AM

    What model G4, eMac, iMac MacBook?
    This is a common problem in the Macbooks for example but this problem dose not appear in the desktops the solution given above is good for the eMacs in most cases also run your software updates from under the apple menu
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    Sep 20, 2009, 05:29 AM
    Hey it's a very big problem from many days when I was trying to install iatkos v7 mac osx leopard on my computer it never detected my nay of the hardware mouse,keyboard,and hdd too my configuration is ASUS P5VD2 VM SE motherboard,Intel Pentium Dual Core E2140 Processor,2 GB RAM,Samsung 250 GB SATA hdd,NVIDIA GEForce 9400 GT Graphic Card.
    So please help anybody... please its very important to me now any suggesions or whatever u know please post me. Thank u.
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    Oct 5, 2009, 10:36 AM
    Quote Originally Posted by sweet4kishore View Post
    Hey its a very big problem from many days when I was trying to install iatkos v7 mac osx leopard on my computer it never detected my nay of the hardware mouse,keyboard,and hdd too my configuration is ASUS P5VD2 VM SE motherboard,Intel Pentium Dual Core E2140 Processor,2 GB RAM,Samsung 250 GB SATA hdd,NVIDIA GEForce 9400 GT Graphic Card.
    So please help anybody... please its very important to me now any suggesions or whatever u know please post me. Thank u.
    So from this I would wager you are running a HacIntosh ASUS dose have limited support for the HacIntosh.
    Google will be your friend
    This may help
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