I also had this problem with on board SIS. My fix was to disable gpm at startup.
:) Tim White ----- Original Message ----- From: "Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Tom Massey'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 12:44 PM Subject: RE: [SLUG] A problem with X > I did have a problem with on board SIS, I think I had to tell it that I had > half the video ram than I actually had, so 4096 instead of 8192 under > section "Device" > > It might help > > Chris > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Massey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, 15 November 2001 11:55 am > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SLUG] A problem with X > > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 11:48:25AM +1100, Ken Caldwell wrote: > > XFree86-4.1. The pointer appears as a square say 2cm x 2cm made up of 8 > > horizontal lines alternately dark and light. Does anyone know what > > causes this or how to fix it > > I think this can be fixed by adding > > Option "sw_cursor" > > To XF86Config-4. I think it goes in the "Graphics device section". > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
