Re: Frozen mouse pointer in X
On 08 Oct 2005, Antony Gelberg wrote:
> Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > On 07 Oct 2005, Antony Gelberg wrote:
> >
> >>Anthony Campbell wrote:
> >>
> >>>My computer crashed recently so I built a new one (AMD Sempron, ASRock
> >>>K8Upgrade-1689 m/b) and installed the original HDs. Most things work as
> >>>expected (not USB so far) but the most urgent problem is that the mouse
> >>>pointer is frozen in the middle of the screen in X.
> >>
> >>Hmm. I'm astonished that USB doesn't work. Are you using your own
> >>compiled kernel?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > It does now. I needed to compile different options in the kernel (OHCI,
> > EHCI instead of UHCI).
>
> If you don't _need_ to compile your own kernel, the Debian images are
> just fine. And IME it's pretty rare to _need_ to.
>
>
You're orobably right. I do use the Debian image on my laptop. It's
just that I got into the habit of compiling my own kernels for the
desktop long ago, before I started with Debian, and I've continued out
of force of habit, I suppose. But perhaps I shouldn't bother.
Anthony
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