> http://bugs.debian.org/234025
> ...which has already been filed. Mea culpa. I didn't know people were calling it the "milky screen" bug; I was thinking of less gentle terms. >> Thank you very much for any assistance; I'm a little wary of trying >> to compile xfree86 from CVS. > If you're willing to patch and compile XFree86 from Debian's packages, > you could help us out tremendously in resolving this bug! Well, adding the patch and compiling xfree86 from Debian sources was surprisingly painless (the only annoying thing was that it wanted to install libstdc++5-dev and g++-3.2 to go with it; I installed libstdc++5-3.3-dev instead and everything worked fine), and 4 gig of disk later (3966304 K), I had binary packages. Which solved the problem! Sorry for the delay; this is someone else's computer and I had to wait for the weekend to test it. Thanks for your help and all your hard work. I'll have that drink you're offering now... :-) (Oh, I forgot to try the "sw_cursor" workaround. Sorry.)
