Re: mouse pointer disappearing

Andrew Sullivan (asullivan@sprint.ca)
Tue, 5 Jan 1999 15:04:46 -0500 (EST)


On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Michal Vitecek wrote:
> 
>  newer graphic cards have HW support for the cursor. of course it's
>  controlled by the SW, but ... who knows.

Usually, there's a way to turn this off as one of the options to the X
server.  The card-specific README will contain the info if it's for XFree,
but the READMEs are often written in a confusing way (I find), so it takes
a lot of work to find the relevant option.

A

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