Ubuntu 12.04 (beta) mouse pointer missing.

[RTufty]

Hi,
I've tried out the beta of Ubuntu 12.04, and it's horribly "blinky" - windows flickering in and out. Installing Parallels tools cures this, but now there's no mouse pointer! Trying to switch to coherence gives a warning "The parallels mouse synchronization service is not started." Any ideas? I've got Ubuntu 10.10 running fine under the same Parallels installation, fwiw. Parallels 7, on OSX 10.6
Bill

 

[JEarles]

So, what do I type to the terminal to upgrade the Parallels driver?

cd /media/Parallels\ Tools/
sudo ./install

 

[DonGray]

The commands I used in terminal

1. We need to mount the pro-tools-lin.iso
$ cd media # get to the media directory
$ sudo mkdir cdrom # need a mount point
$ sudo mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom #barks about write protected and mounts as read-only
$ cd cdrom # go to the mount point
$ ls # see what we can see oh boy! An install file
$ sudo ./install

2. follow the instructions
3. reboot - I shutdown the machine, closed parallels, started parallels, started the vm (I'm running Kubuntu 12.04 LTS)

And no mouse pointer ... I'm running Parallels Build 7.0.15055 (Revision 740667; March 5, 2012)

Let me try the ISO download link.

 

[DonGray]

and I was WAY behind in updates. Currently downloading .15094 and will update when I finish upgrading.

 

[DonGray]

Updating to current and manual update

worked.

I'm a happy camper!