Mouse pointer missing in X

keyword: centos linux redhat xorg xorg.conf missing disappear hide hiden fc5 cadence
symptom: After X has loaded the mouse pointer disappears while to resize some window horitontally. Though, the mouse is still working if you move the “pretend” pointer up to the top of the screen you can click menus, pull down menus, and select menu items. The mouse is captured by some app and not released properly.
Solution:
add the following line to xorg.conf in the Section “Device”
Option “HWCursor” “0”
restart X by ctrl+alt+backspace