It's a problem with your video card, XFree86 is trying to display a cursor using hardware routines but something isn't going well. As root, edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config file and scroll down to the section named "Device" and you'll see a few lines that start with `#Option`. It's easy to find because there's a comment that says "uncomment this line if you see a big white block instead of a cursor!". You need to remove the # character from the line that says `#Option "sw_cursor"`, save, then restart X. This should bring your pointer back by using software drawing routines. It's probably a little bit slower than a hardware cursor but not greatly so. Tony On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Larry Blodgett pushed some tiny letters in this order: > > Here is a strange problem. I just installed Mandrake 7.1 on a new > machine. And when I run KDE or Gnome, I get a white box about 1/2 by > 1/2 inch on my 15 inch monitor screen. It seems I don't have the > actual pointer icon. The upper left hand corner of the white square > seems to function the same as the end of the pointer. >
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