From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 11 20: 0:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nycsmtp2out.rdc-nyc.rr.com (nycsmtp2out.rdc-nyc.rr.com [24.29.99.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AD3137B41A for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 20:00:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from scott1.nyc.rr.com (24-168-24-239.nyc.rr.com [24.168.24.239]) by nycsmtp2out.rdc-nyc.rr.com (8.12.1/Road Runner SMTP Server 1.0) with ESMTP id g0C3xrup005564; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 22:59:53 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020113025921.00ba7ff0@pop-server.nyc.rr.com> X-Sender: scottro@pop-server.nyc.rr.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 03:01:18 -0500 To: Stanley Hopcroft , Questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Scott Subject: Re: Help with XFree86. S3 Trio 3D 2X/XSVGA XF86336. has large square white cursor Icon. Very hard to use. In-Reply-To: <20020112144453.A453@IPAustralia.Gov.AU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 14:44 2002/01/12 +1100, Stanley Hopcroft wrote: >Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, > >I am writing to ask your advice about dealing with a large white (about >1/2" - 1 cm side length) square mouse cursor with XFree86. > >The problem started when I replaced a Trident Blade 3D (intermittently >failing to start XWindows - driver messages, KB lamps flash and then >blackness), ussually on hot days) with a new S3 Trio 3D 2X. > >Unfortunately the mouse cursor is now almost unusable (except for >switching between windows and obliterating typing in a white window - >when the cursor is over the window). I ran into this and fixed it, after searching deja, by lowering (in XF86Config) the video RAM from 8192 to 4096. (Same video card as yours) HTH Scott Robbins To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message