Bug#466704: #466704 xterm: pointer color is always white

[Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com>]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Cyril Brulebois wrote:

> Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com> (19/01/2011):
> > The bug report is about the mouse pointer, not the text-cursor
> > (which KiBi is describing).
>
> No, it's not what I'm describing.
>
> When I start xterm, I get black text by default, a black text cursor,
> and a black I-shapped mouse pointer.
>
> When I start xterm -fg red, I get red text, a red text cursor, and a
> red I-shapped mouse pointer.
>
> And switching the pointer from the first xterm to the second one, and
> the other way round, makes it change colour each time.

Perhaps the problem is in the X server (specific to the video driver, for 
instance).  The checks I've made were from different systems using the
same hardware.  fwiw, I've got this in my config:

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "S3 ProSavageDDR"
    Driver      "savage"
EndSection

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