Am Montag, 5. November 2001 21:33 schrieb THE CROW: > Hi everybody, > I recently installed debian 2.2r3 on my pc, and I did a "dist-upgrade". I > have a weird problem that's annoying me. > It happen when I run X with every window manager ( KDE included ). > I can't see the mouse icons 'cause what I ever see is a white square ! I > didn't belie that when I saw it !!! The X server version is 4.1.0-9; I > looked everywhere for a solution but I couldn't find anything :( > Anybody of you have an idea about how to solve this problem, and most of > all which is the cause of this malfunction ???
It might be an interaction between "gpm" (the mouse handler for text mode) and the X server. As root do a "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" and make sure to set "Use kernel framebuffer device interface" to "no". When I had this set to "yes" (on my Matrox Mystique), "gpm" does not recognize switching from text to graphics mode and continues trying to draw a mouse cursor, instead of leaving this job to the X server. -- Wolfgang Ratzka
