Why is my cursor not appearing, but trackpad working fine?

I have a new Asus Laptop X540SA (not a 2 in 1) and I can use the trackpad, but my cursor will not appear, so I cannot log in (cannot type) to get past the log-in screen to do update the trackpad drivers as suggested in earlier posts.

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