From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 29 22:45:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from eagle.prod.itd.earthlink.net (eagle.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB62A37B5AA for ; Sat, 29 Apr 2000 22:45:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bduk@earthlink.net) Received: from earthlink.net (sdn-ar-006orportP190.dialsprint.net [63.178.66.230]) by eagle.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA27398 for ; Sat, 29 Apr 2000 22:45:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bduk@localhost) by earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id DAA02114; Sun, 30 Apr 2000 03:45:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bduk) Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 03:45:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200004301045.DAA02114@earthlink.net> From: Derrick Baumer To: adampalitz@earthlink.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <001301bfb208$a2c0f3a0$81fe1818@socal.rr.com> (adampalitz@earthlink.net) Subject: Re: pointer problems Reply-To: bduk@earthlink.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: "adam palitz" > > would anyone happen to know why in xwindows my mouse > pointer appears as a big white block...instead of course > as a pointer?...its an ATX, but I'm using a 2button serial mouse. I would guess you have an incompatibility between your card and X server, or a misconfiguration. Have you had the mouse working correctly under FreeBSD/XWindows before? What video card are you using? What version of FreeBSD? Have you made any non-standard modifications to your /etc/XF86Config file (ie. did you edit the file by hand and change stuff)? Another symptom of this incompatibility may be garbled text. If you open a big text file in an xterm then scroll forward and backward through it a few times, you may start seeing the text "break up" and become unintelligible. If you are not seeing this, it does not mean the problem is not as I am guessing, but if you are, it definitely means an incompatibility. --- Derrick Baumer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message