[Cialug] X.org corrupted mouse cursor

[Nathan C. Smith]

Google under X11 and hardware cursor.  (I'm guessing)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel A. Ramaley [mailto:daniel.ramaley at DRAKE.EDU] 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 8:30 AM
> To: cialug at cialug.org
> Subject: [Cialug] X.org corrupted mouse cursor
> 
> 
> 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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