From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 16 19:54:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com (cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com [24.6.21.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CF3A37B538 for ; Tue, 16 May 2000 19:54:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from conrads@cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA00727; Tue, 16 May 2000 21:54:16 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <002701bfbe3b$0b8b7520$92fe1818@socal.rr.com> Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 21:54:16 -0500 (CDT) Organization: @Home Network From: Conrad Sabatier To: adam palitz Subject: RE: A BIG brick for a pointer Cc: free bsd questions Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 15-May-00 adam palitz wrote: > On the console my pointer looks like a normal pointer...when I go into X it > appears as a big white box....I'm using a serial mouse (with the sysmouse > daemon ...I believe), and one of the x's for My S3 chipset (forget what > exactly)...I have switched to a few different desktops...the problem > continues....I also think I have switched servers ( I have kept the same > chipset settings but switced resolution, and colour) > > Anybody have any ideas? > Thanks > adam That's really not a whole lot to go on. :-) What version of X are you using? 3.3.6? 4.0? What kind of video card do you have (run SuperProbe to find out)? What X server are you trying to run (ls -l /usr/X11R6/bin/X and see what it points to)? There are other variables as well. Mouse configuration (you're not *sure* if you're using moused?), color depth, ... I saw this type of behavior briefly while I was setting up X on a new box recently. Big white block, about the size of a WindowMaker dock icon. Turned out I was running the wrong server altogether, and had also specificed the wrong monitor specs. Have you tried running XF86Setup? Definitely the easiest way to deal with X configuration. If you could provide more info, we may figure something out. -- Conrad Sabatier http://members.home.net/conrads/ ICQ# 1147270 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message