[ltp] mouse cursor disappears

Eben King linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 14 Apr 2005 21:13:52 -0400 (EDT)


On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Jan Girlich wrote:

> Eben King schrieb:
> 
> > On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Jan Girlich wrote:
> > 
> > Maybe switch it to/from a hardware cursor (i.e., whichever it is, change 
> > it)?
> 
> Errr, sorry, you know, the mouse is something I rarely touch, so I just 
> don't know what you try to tell me. :)
> 
> Maybe you can point me a howto which explains how to change the cursor 
> from or to hardware cursor?

Can't find any relevant man page.  Maybe that video hardware doesn't do it,
or SuSE won't say how it's done?  If it can't be done, that's not your 
problem.

On my desktop, with a Geforce 4 variant (driver="nv"), it's

Section "Device"
...
Option "HWCursor" "on"
...
EndSection

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