On Saturday 17 August 2002 00:34, Russell Neches wrote: > I should probably add that the problem does go away if I disable the > hardware cursor. I've been led to believe that this is a "bad thing." > Is it? If software cursors suck in some subtle way, I won't be in > front of this computer often enough to know fist hand.
I posted the same problem a short time ago as well, and disabling the hardware cursor did help the problem, but didn't fix it completely. It's so very intermittent that's it's hard to tell if a tweak has changed anything, but with hw_cursor disabled, the right shift will suddenly correct itself as quicky as it started. It might be 1 minute after the problem presents itself, or it might take 15 minutes, usually if it hasn't healed itself by then I'll reboot to maintain my sanity. I have no idea what triggers the problem, nor what slaps it back to reality. Again, with intermittent nature of this, it *appears* that this is the case. At any rate, with hw_cursor enabled, I've never had it right itself on it's own, but perhaps I just haven't waited long enough. The worst part is that a couple end users who have had the problem crop up repeatedly get whized off and just hit the reset button... I fear that one of these time fsck won't save the day. :)
