Hello -
I'm answering my own question for anyone else who might have the same
issue. I found parts of the answer in an old thread of the XFree86
mailing list and on Cirrus's and Intel's websites.
The basic idea is this: my problem had nothing to do with the mouse and
everything to do with the video driver. I discovered that my card is
not a Cirrus Logic 5480, but a Cirrus Logic 5480 "compatible". It is
actually built by Intel as part of the L440GX+ motherboard on this
server. So I tried the Intel drivers one by one (thankfully there
weren't that many). There was one that added lines in the XF86Config
file for options, including:
Option sw_cursor
I had seen someone had said in one of the mailing lists that sw_cursor
fixed this problem for him, so I tried it. Setting this Intel 740
(generic) driver as the one caused the XF86Config file to change with
several commented-out lines, including the one above. I uncommented it,
and when I started X, suddenly I had a cursor I could see.
Take care,
Paul
Hi
I've installed FreeBSD on a new machine, and I used the mouse daemon,
which I've used on several BSD installs. It always worked fine before,
but this time the mouse is invisible in X. It works, it's there, but
you can't see it. Does anyone know what's happening? I have a Cirrus
Logic 5480 graphics card in the motherboard, and a plain old two button
Logitech PS/2 mouse.
This is the only thing wrong with X as far as I can tell now. I have
typed commands in terminal windows, executed programs, and so on.
Thanks,
Paul Warner
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Hi
I've installed FreeBSD on a new machine, and I used the mouse daemon,
which I've used on several BSD installs. It always worked fine before,
but this time the mouse is invisible in X. It works, it's there, but
you can't see it. Does anyone know what's happening? I have a Cirrus
Logic 5480 graphics card in the motherboard, and a plain old two button
Logitech PS/2 mouse.
This is the only thing wrong with X as far as I can tell now. I have
typed commands in terminal windows, executed programs, and so on.
Thanks,
Paul Warner
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