Re: [SLUG] Re: Another Debian newbie

[Anand Kumria <wildfire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 02:18:20AM +0100, Steven downing wrote:
> >>> Angus Lees <gusl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 20/10/00 12:09:47 >>>
> >> My other prob is whatever window manager I run, the cursor is a
> >> large block of junk, about a cm square of random black and white
> >> pixels.  Anyone got any tips on this?
> 
> >sounds like a problem with your X server. which funky, latest
> >whizzbang graphics card do you have?
> 
> Good old cirrus logic pci 5440 circa '95 which has worked under redhat,suse,mulinux.  Runs under the SVGA server. (Xfree 3.whatever)
> (unforunately i can't apt-get xfree 4 off the net just yet)

Ahh, If you had said that I would have known straight away.

It is a problem specific to Cirrus cards check out

/usr/share/doc/xserver-common/README.cirrus

sw_cursor may be the option you are after.

Anand