Black mouse pointer at Windows 2008 R2

I am having a similar problem when connecting to Windows 7 (client version of Server 2008 R2). When the pointer scheme is set to anything other than "Windows Aero", the cursor appears as a solid black arrow. I am guessing it has something to do with the bitmap format of the other pointer schemes: Aero has full-color cursors, whereas the others have 1-bit (black/white) images.

I am experiencing the same problem. I have tracked it down to the (unit8 *)data array in process_colour_pointer_pdu in rdp.c.
The image of the cursor is somehow only the lower part of the original image, but is "stretched" vertically with empty 0x00 lines to fit the correct height.
The mask seems to be correct - which is the only reason the normal mouse pointer is visible at all because for this cursor the data array contains only zeros.

It looks like an MS bug, they don't support clients using only older pointer caps.
To fix this we need to implement 'New pointers'
Document MS-RDPBCGR
2.2.9.1.1.4.5 New Pointer Update (TS_POINTERATTRIBUTE)

This is a real problem for us as we use rdesktop with LTSP for our thin clients.

Appears to be fixed with the patch committed with #2884937. You're restricted to monochrome cursors, but they don't appear broken, at least.

encountered the same problem, the patch mentioned by dougk works fine here for rdesktop on ubuntu and WS2008R2

I tried patch, for some reason it didn't work. Apparently it's fixed in latest update, downloaded from SVN, copied configure from 1.6, compiled, success! I figured a bunch of people with the problem might be having trouble with building from SVN, so I tgz'd and put it at http://bit.ly/9DrhEB --- ./configure ; make ; make install --- ready to rock and roll!

I tried patch, for some reason it didn't work. Apparently it's fixed in
latest update, downloaded from SVN, copied configure from 1.6, compiled,
success! I figured a bunch of people with the problem might be having
trouble with building from SVN, so I tgz'd and put it at
http://filesocial.com/hheb38y --- ./configure ; make ; make install --- ready to
rock and roll!

The comments seem to indicate this BUG has been fixed for quite a long time in the source code versions. Shouldn't it be closed out? i am wondering if
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=604461
has not been fixed because cursory reading of this bug seems like it is not fixed.
Please explicitly mark fixed, then maybe the Fedora Core maintainer will update the rpm.

Hi,

I just tested the recently released version 1.7.0 and can confirm that this version fixes the problem with the black cursor on Windows Server 2008 R2. I have tested this on MacOS 10.6.7: 1.6.0 shows the problem, with 1.7.0 it's gone. A colleague has tested 1.7.0 independently on Linux and confirmed the fix also. I will test my Debian Linux box tomorrow, but I'll guess it will work there as well.

I therefore suggest closing this bug. I also reported the fact that 1.7.0 fixes the problem to the Debian bug tracker [1].

Adrian

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=609525

On two Fedora 14 boxes, i did the following by hand - very clean. Not a single problem. Works great. No more black cursors.

yum -y install libX11-devel openssl-devel

#!/bin/bash
mkdir -p /home/public/SOURCE/
pushd /home/public/SOURCE/
svn co https://rdesktop.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/rdesktop rdesktop
pushd ./rdesktop/rdesktop/trunk/
./bootstrap
./configure
./make
sudo make install

Nice to hear, closing.

Hi

Could you please provide me the patch details on this fix ?

Thanks,
Pavan G.