Two weird behaviours in X...

[Martin Duclos]

I had similar problem with the cursor dissapearing only with nvidia cards. Edit xord.conf, set  HWcursor OFF or SWcurson ON, there essentially the same. For me it seemed to be a problem where the graphic boot would be on one x, and the login on another x. The login screen would come up, I would loose the cursor image. I removed the graphical boot and the cursor would work just fine. Then I ended up playing around with dual screen and would loose the cursor again so I just set SWcrusor ON and no more problems - but I digress.

Martin


----------------------------------------> Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 14:20:06 -0800> From: tjaviss-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Two weird behaviours in X...>> The cursor thing might be a video-card issue too? I boot with GDM on> my systems, and the cursor is fine, but when it gets into KDE the> cursor messes up and becomes an ugly mono-colour arrow (as opposed to> one from the "Crystal Cursors" them I chose in KDE.>> My issues occured with NVidia cards, in particular I think the 5000> series (5200, 5600, etc)>> On Nov 7, 2007 5:36 AM, William O'Higgins Witteman>  wrote:>> I recently installed Debian on a new desktop. I upgraded to "testing">> and installed all of the packages that I'm used to using. During the>> installation, I chose "desktop" system, which by default installs Gnome.>> I don't use Gnome.>>>> I use "update-rc.d -f gdm remove" to get rid of the graphical login, and>> set up my .xinitrc to use Openbox. All seems fine, but I notice that>> the cursor is the Gnome cursor. I don't especially care, and things>> seem fine.>>>> Then, for reasons I don't understand xscreensaver doesn't recognize my>> password. It did a few hours ago, but not now. Okay,>> Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, test my password (works fine) and restart X. X>> starts fine, but the cursor doesn't. If I right-click, I get the>> Openbox menu, but the cursor doesn't appear. I find no combination of>> commands that lets the cursor come back. It only returns after a reboot>> (insert deep chagrin). Does anyone know what's going on? Thanks.>> -->>>> yours,>>>> William>>>>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----->> Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)>>>> iD8DBQFHMb9GHQtmiuz+KT8RAu7mAKCPldy6moBMHKruNDPBq8Go0dlmyACcCkVm>> zdouWlPK/C1yuatBU9xxNn4=>> =21NE>> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----->>>>>>>> --> Tyler Aviss> Systems Support> LPIC/LPIC-2> (647) 477-1784> --> The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://gtalug.org/> TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns> How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists

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