Re: Lost cursor in X

[Josh McKinney <forming@home.com>]

On approximately Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 12:07:18PM -0500, Angelo Cano wrote:
> 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  :)

SoftWare_cursor maybe ;)
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