Good news ! - I remember some people here on the list (or was it the "expert"-one ?) having big-time trouble with their Trident chipsets. It almost drove me nuts as well ! - The problem manifested itself only occasionally : the mouse-pointer got an offset, and couldn't be moved to the left rim of the screen, but stopped dead about 30 pixels from it. Furthermore, when clicking something, I had to point the cursor about those 30 pixels to the RIGHT of focus. Only cure was to reboot - and that's not something we linuxers like ;-)
Well, I looked around on the net and found the answer to all my troubles on the S.u.S.E. - mailing list : http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/wessels_trident_mouse.html The solution is surprisingly simple : pass the option "sw_cursor" to CF86Config ! In my case, only thing I had to do was to uncomment the line Option "sw_cursor" bu removing the #-mark. This being a "newbie"-list, I'll show how "I did it my way" : 1. Open a console-window 2. type : su 3. enter your root-password 4. open "Midnight Commander" by issuing the command : mc 5. highlight the file /etc/X11/XF86Config and press <F4> to edit it 6. search for the entry below ( or something very similar ) : # ********************************************************************** # Graphics device section # ********************************************************************** Section "Device" Identifier "Generic VGA" Chipset "generic" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Trident CyberBlade (generic)" VendorName "Unknown" BoardName "Unknown" # Chipset "CyberBlade" # VideoRam 4096 # Clock lines # Uncomment following option if you see a big white block # instead of the cursor! Option "sw_cursor" Option "power_saver" EndSection # ********************************************************************** # Screen sections # ********************************************************************** 7. either remove the #-mark in front of Option "sw_cursor" or simply add the line 8. save the file by pressing <F2> 9. exit "Midnight Commander" by pressing <F10> 10. back in the console-window, type exit , and you are done 11. restart the X-server or reboot. That's all, folks. And credit for this advice to the S.u.S.E. - people ! Kaj Haulrich
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