Guys, I haven't received any replies on this one -- am I in the wrong forum for this? Help still appreciated.
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 15:17, Christian Kreibich wrote: > Hi all, > > > I'm having trouble with the mouse cursors on my office machine. It's got > a GeForce 4, is running RedHat 8 and the admin installed a beta X server > RPM, version XFree86-4.2.99.2-0.20021209.0. > > I'm having several problems with this setup: > > - The mouse pointer is alpha blended, which I don't want > - The mouse cursor has a dropshadow, which I don't want > - The mouse cursor is twice as large as necessary, making selecting text > etc quite hard. > - The mouse cursor icon itself is slightly broken (empty vertical line > in the image). > > I'm looking for possibilities to disable all of this eyecandy and get my > plain ordinary mouse pointers back. The admin tried setting CursorShadow > to "no" in XF86Config, with no effect. > > I've played with Xcursor options a bit (eg Xcursor.size etC) in my X > resources, but everything goes unnoticed. > > Can anyone help me get my old cursors back? Note that I'm not root on > the machine, so I can't just install other servers etc. > > Relevant section from /proc/pci: > VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV25 (GeForce 4) (rev163). > IRQ 16. > Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=5.Max Lat=1. > Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfc000000 [0xfcffffff]. > Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf4000000 [0xf7ffffff]. > Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf3f80000 [0xf3ffffff]. > > Relevant output of X -version: > > XFree86 Version 4.2.99.2 (Red Hat Linux release: 4.2.99.2-0.20021209.0) > / X Window System > (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600) > Release Date: 9 December 2002 > If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is > newer than the above date, look for a newer version before > reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/) > Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.18-18.8.0smp i686 [ELF] > Build Host: daffy.perf.redhat.com > > I'll gladly provide more details if necessary. Help woul be much > appreciated -- these cursors are a pain, sorry. > > Cheers, > Christian. Christian. -- ________________________________________________________________________ http://www.whoop.org _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
