You have 2 problems, and I'm going to solve the small one. The mouse
cursor as a block is because X defaults your card to a h/w cursor. You need a
line like
option=sw_cursor
DON'T TRUST THE SYNTAX! Something like that. It never caused me a crash though.
On Thu, 05 Apr 2001, Sean Coyne wrote:
>
> does anyone know why harddrake would crash whenever i run it?? i have a
> PIII 800 with voodoo 5 5500 AGP 64 mb card. i believe that the card is the
> reason, b/c the problem didnt occur when i had a different card with the
> system, however, after every fresh install, i have this problem. the screen
> turns black and i can see a block shaped curser. i am able to kill x with a
> ctrl alt F2 combination, but then i have to reboot to be able to restart x.
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