On Saturday 01 June 2002 01:05 am, Matt Blake wrote: > Every now and again using any windows manager - mainly gnome or kde, i > get a strange problem with the mouse - it is as if the area the mouse > can move in shifts 2cm to the right but the actual screen stays in the > same place. So for example when i want to click on the gnome icon to go > into the main menu i have to click the mouse about 2cm to the right of > the actual icon. The only way to stop it is a complete reboot - which is > obviously pretty annoying! > > For various reasons i reinstalled mandrake 8.2 and the problem is the > same. Does anybody have any idea why this is happening or how i can > solve it? > > thanks for any help > Matt
Matt, this is a "bug" in some Trident chipsets, especially "cyberblades". The solution is surprisingly simple : pass the option "sw_cursor" to the file " /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 " To do that, open a console and become root. Now, fire up a text-editor of your choice, for example type : "mcedit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4" (without the quotes, of course). Scroll down the file until you find *Section "Device"*. A few stanzas down that section, remove the hash-mark (#) in front of *Option "sw_cursor"*. Save the file, un-root yourself and restart the X-server (or logout and in again). Done. HTH Kaj Haulrich Denmark
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