[ltp] Cursor position problem under RH7 KDE3 on ThinkPad R30

[ZeiMoT]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Dr David Green wrote:
> Apologies if this has already been addressed and I haven't found it.

The question is one of the old ones, it is one of those that should be in
a FAQ.

> My problem is that more than occasionally in X (KDE3) the location the
> cursor on the screen suddenly changes so that it does not coincide with
> the point that is being clicked.
> The offset is always the same way, horizontal to the right by about
> 1/30-th of the width of the screen (about 1 cm or 1/2 inch on the R30 LCD)
> It makes it impossible to reach scroll bars on the right hand side of
> applications without a lot of hassle.

Solution is that in your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 you need to add an option
to the "Device" section. The option is "SWCursor". This is what my Device
section looks like on my R30:

---[CuT]---
Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Generic Video Card"
        Driver          "trident"
        Option          "SWCursor"
        Option          "UseFBDev"              "true"
EndSection
---[CuT]---

   -=< ZeiMoT >=-




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