Re: X problem after upgrade

[Kent West <westk@nicanor.acu.edu>]

Christoph Simon wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I've just updated a pure debian potato to woody. After that, X (still
> 3) started fine, but the mouse cursor had a colored square around
> it. I didn't care about it because I planned to install X 4. This
> worked without any problem, but now, the mouse pointer is totally
> invisible. I recalled that there was an issue about the cursor fonts
> (gimpers vs. artwiz), so I uninstalled all fonts and reinstalled only
> the basic sets (base and 75dpi), but there was no change. Also
> installing or removing xfs made no change. There is no error message
> in any place, X seems to be just happy. Any ideas?



I may be barking up the wrong tree, but I've seen similar issues related 
to video settings, although in such cases other glitches showed up as 
well. Anyway, the thought that crossed my mind, and it may very well be 
irrelevant, is that perhaps you configured X to use the framebuffer 
rather than the actual driver for the video chipset (or vice-versa), and 
what you're seeing is video glitching instead of actual mouse issues.

Just a thought.

Kent