Re: Frozen mouse pointer in X

[Antony Gelberg <antony@wayforth.co.uk>]

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.