[Cialug] X.org corrupted mouse cursor

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

Hello. A couple months ago i replaced the hard drive in my main machine, 
which had been running Debian Sarge. I installed Debian Etch on the new 
drive. There is an X windows problem i've had ever since that is rather 
annoying. On X (among other GUIs), the cursor may change shape 
depending on what is beneath it. On Etch (which uses X.org), when the 
cursor ought to change shape it becomes corrupted. The cursor appears 
as a large block about an inch square, with random pixels colored in 
and the rest transparent. When i move the mouse cursor to an area where 
it should revert to normal, it does. But it is not easy to figure out 
what i'm clicking on while the pointer is corrupted.

Any idea what causes this, or how to fix it? I'm not very familiar with 
X terminology, so even some keywords that i could use for Google might 
be helpful. I don't know if it matters, but my main machine is quite 
old; i think the graphics card is a Matrox Millenium II, but X supports 
is quite well. Thanks in advance.

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