Thanks for the reply. You were right. 

My G200 was misdetected as having 4 MB
RAM, whereas it really had 8, which caused my mouse pointer to be invisible.

Editing the XFree 4.0 config file in a couple of places fixed the mouse problem.

-- Stephen

On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> you can get earlier versions of x to do this by setting your video memory to
> more than is installed on the card.
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stephen Boulet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 30 April 2000 23:40
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [Cooker] Invisible mouse pointer in XFree 4.0 + crypto
> > 
> > 
> > This may have been fixed, but I just installed hydrogen from 
> > the iso. Problems:
> > 
> > In XFree 4.0, the mouse pointer is invisible. I'm running it 
> > with a matrox
> > millineum G200, 8 MB RAM, Voodoo II, with a logitech 
> > firstmouse+ PS/2, SMP
> > kernel on a dual celeron Abit BP-6.
> > 
> > The mouse isn't exactly invisible: when you click on the 
> > desktop, a little
> > white pixel is illuminated. When you move it over a widget 
> > (like the close "X"
> > on a window), it will become highlighted and is functional.
> > 
> > The ftp connection didn't work for the crypto stuff; there 
> > was a message about
> > not being able to find the file it was looking for.
> > 
> > -- Stephen
> >

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