Re: Lost cursor in X

[Roland Hinkley <roland@painswik.freeserve.co.uk>]

In article <[🔎] 20011010120718.A6392@debian>, Angelo Cano <acano@systec.com>
writes
>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  :)
>
>
Many thanks, also don't know why, but X is working again - so again
thanks.
-- 
Roland Hinkley