Re: Mouse/X

[Olivier <billet@eurecom.fr>]

Quoting  "Paul M Foster" :
> -- was paulf@quillandmouse.com on Mar 12, 2003 at 10:59:50 --

> I'll give you the solution someone gave me on my system. I'm using a 
> Trident Cyberblade i/1 video card, so YMMV.

That's quite interesting because my video card is a 
Trident Cyberblade i/7 ...

> Go to your XF86Config-4 file (in /etc/X11) and find the section 
> pertaining to your video card. Within that section, add the following:
> 
> Option 	"SWCursor" "on"
> 
> What I was told is that this causes X to position the cursor, rather 
> than the video card (which apparently gets it wrong). Naturally, restart 
> X afterward.

I will investigate this way and test a little (since the problem
only appears from time to time) before reporting the results.

Many, many thanks Paul !