Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 14:01:09 -0700 From: "Paul Smith" <stork@QNET.COM> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Mouse pointer invisible in Gnome2 Message-ID: <200409042056.i84Kudsj021327@cello.qnet.com>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0000_01C49287.A8594740 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I installed 4.10 with XF86 4.3 and Gnome2 on my IBM Thinkpad 600X laptop, which has a Neomagic video card. I used ncurses to configure /etc/X11/XF86Config. Everything went fine except when I brought up Gnome the mouse pointer was nowhere to be seen. The mouse was working because when I moved it icons it evidently passed across would light up. The mouse pointer was invisible. On the same machine 5.2.1 freezes up when I xinit. Control-Alt-Backspace, Alt-F2 and all other commands known to me do nothing. To close it I had to unplug the power cable and remove the battery, not a preferred method to shut down. Red Hat 9 installs and runs perfectly (apart from the Lucent modem), and Gnome has a mouse pointer! An OS from Redmond which will remain Gnomeless installs and runs perfectly. I really like 4.10. How can I make the mouse pointer visible like in Red Hat? Paul Smith semenbank@yahoo.com --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Checked. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.749 / Virus Database: 501 - Release Date: 9/1/2004 ------=_NextPart_000_0000_01C49287.A8594740--
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