On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 09:18:08AM -0800, Steve Juranich wrote: > On 7 February 2003 at 11:52, > "Narins, Josh" <josh.narins@lehman.com> wrote: > > > Last night I upgraded my box and my mouse cursor (the arrow) now > > appears as a one inch by one inch square of thick, random black dots and > > transparent pixels. > > It still works, the upper left corner of the box maps to the tip of > > the arrow, but I would like to be able to 'fix" it. > > Where do I look to find out what happened? > > Sometimes I have a similar problem (random black boxes and weird > patterns drawn on the screen) because when I originally set up X on my > box, I gave it a bogus value for VideoRam. I'd look through /etc/X11/ > XF86Config-4 (or just XFConfig86, if you're still running X11 v. 3.x) > for an entry that says: > VideoRam <some number> > and comment it out. That fixes the problem for me. > > Since I hosed my system in the very beginning, every time I get a new > xserver package, I have to jump through the same hoops. I'm sure these > config info is stored somewhere, but I haven't quite figured it out > where it is. dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 xfree86-common -rob
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