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elEcho
05-29-2003, 12:49 AM
Everything works great with Knoppix on my p3 micronpc transportGX laptop... except... my mouse shows up as a big white block about 70x70 pixels.
any thoughts on how I can fix this?
What kind of video card? (Use scanpci or lspci to obtain PCI ids.)
KNOPPIX has known problems with particular chipsets (e.g. Neomagic). Someone needs to fix what's broken in /usr/share/hwdata/Cards.
mmaki
05-29-2003, 05:09 AM
Edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and uncomment the line
Option "sw_cursor"
It is in the "Device" section
If you are running from CD restart the xserver. I do it from the command line with init 3 then init 5
Good luck!
Mike
elEcho
05-29-2003, 04:54 PM
What kind of video card? (Use scanpci or lspci to obtain PCI ids.)
I used lspci and my VCA controller lists as: S3 Inc. 86C270-294 Savage/IX-MV (rev 13)
Is this considered a troublesome one?
elEcho
05-29-2003, 05:09 PM
Edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and uncomment the line
Option "sw_cursor"
It is in the "Device" section
If you are running from CD restart the xserver. I do it from the command line with init 3 then init 5
Good luck!
Mike
This worked!
If I'm running from a cd, how can I get it to boot this way all the time. Restarting forces me change it all over again.
Stephen
05-29-2003, 07:37 PM
Edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and uncomment the line
Option "sw_cursor"
It is in the "Device" section
If you are running from CD restart the xserver. I do it from the command line with init 3 then init 5
Good luck!
Mike
This worked!
If I'm running from a cd, how can I get it to boot this way all the time. Restarting forces me change it all over again.
Save your configuration to a floppy there is an option off the Knoppix menu for this, then boot using the floppyconfig cheat code (http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/CheatCodes).
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