On Thu, 3 Jul 2008, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Shlomo Solomon wrote:
Sounds logical, but:
1 - how did this happen in the middle of a session (uptime of a few weeks)?
2 - why didn't restarting X or the runlevel solve this?
3 - how could I have solved this without the re-boot?
I'd actually wager on a hardware problem. Modern VGA adapters display the
cursor as a sprite (i.e. - it does not get rendered into the main screen
memory). If something is wrong with your card, then maybe it stopped
displaying sprites until a reboot re-initialized all the registers.
A driver problem is more likely in this case.
Adding
Option "SWCursor" "true"
to the correct device section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf (and then
restarting X11 server) would probably hide the problem at a very slight
performance price. You can add this line when the problem happens, and
remove it immediately after restarting X.
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Matan Ziv-Av. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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