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 > >
