It appears that my vanishing mouse pointer is a bug in the MACH64 Xserver (3.3.5) and the ATI RAGE LT Pro chipset. After exchanging a few notes with Civileme it dawned on me that past installs on this laptop have been configured with the SVGA server - this time I used the MACH64. Sure enough - I went back to SVGA (using the C&T 65555 chipset) and the mouse pointer is here to stay. FWIW - the generic SVGA looks better than the MACH64 anyway! Did not look at top to see how the overhead has changed tho.... (thanx Civileme!) Cheers - Don
