Re: Lost cursor in X

[Angelo Cano <acano@systec.com>]

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  :)