On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 01:19:03AM -0500, peloy@debian.org wrote: > I was using the closed-source NVidia driver and when I switch back to > the XFree86 nv driver I got bitten by the same problem reported in > #147557. I spent like one hour trying to figure out what was the reason > for this weird double cursor. > > Thanks God I saw this bug report and read the workaround about rebooting > the machine - I never thought that something so drastic was necessary to > get back my hardware cursor. Oh well, that's my reward for using that > stupid NVidia driver. > > Anyway, thanks for the workaround Overfiend. Well, I'm not a big fan of having to reboot a machine to make a problem go away. That is far too much a "Windows"-style method of rectifying problems. However, in this case since the problem is corrupted hardware state -- registers or a hunk of RAM in the video card -- it is perhaps an appropriate remedy. To write a free software utility capable of really doctoring an NVidia video card would probably require more in the way of documentation that NVidia is willing to provide. -- G. Branden Robinson | Organized religion is a sham and a Debian GNU/Linux | crutch for weak-minded people who branden@debian.org | need strength in numbers. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Jesse Ventura
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