Thanks! Of course it was that; there was even a comment in XF86Config
referring to that. Should have paid the wretched thing more attention...
Cheerio,
Mick.
>do you use a S3 graphic card?
>
>sorry if you had mentioned this already ...
>
>if you are using one of the S3 graphic card, then this should work ...
>
>$ su
>password: **********
>
>edit the file /etc/X11/XF86Config
>
>in the devices section where the S3 graphic card is mentioned, there is
>a line that says
>
># put clock lines here
>
>right after that line, enter this
>
>Option "sw_cursor"
>
>save this file and use ctrl-alt-backspace to restart x.
>
>i hope that's somewhat helpful ...
>
>aston
>sydney, australia
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