You would not believe this !!! I was banging my head with my Matrox G400 board and XFree86 4.1 and with a great help from other guys I had a visible screen but the cursor started jumping everywhere on the screen as soon as I touched it for the first time ....
Your Option "sw_cursor" fixed this !!! Unbelievable !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you. Ciao. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josh McKinney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Wednesday, 10 October 2001 6:16 Subject: Re: Lost cursor in X > On approximately Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 12:07:18PM -0500, Angelo Cano wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 12:37:22PM +0100, Roland Hinkley wrote: > > [snip] > > > I recently did an upgrade and now I do not have a cursor visible in X. > > > The mouse works as the screen will move in the virtual desktop as you > > > move the mouse, you just cannot see the cursor. > > [snip] > > > > I had the same problem upgrading to testing with an SiS 5598 card. > > A dejanews search turned up a recomendation to add the "sw_cursor" optino > > to the "Device" section in /etc/X11/XF86Config: > > > > Section "Device" > > Identifier "SiS sis5598" > > VendorName "SiS" > > BoardName "sis5598" > > VideoRam 4092 > > Option "sw_cursor" > > EndSection > > > > Don't know what the "sw_cursor" means, but it worked for me :) > > SoftWare_cursor maybe ;) > -- > Linux, the choice | Why did the Lord give us so much quickness > of a GNU generation -o) | of movement unless it was to avoid > Kernel 2.4.10-ac10 /\ | responsibility with? > on a i586 _\_v | > | > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
