Hi,

well, that was right on the money.  I set Option "sw_cursor" in my
XF86Config file and voila!  I now have a cursor.

Thanks Tim, and all those who took the time to help!

Dave



On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Tim Rightnour wrote:

> 
> I've seen this problem before.. It has to do with a special type of
> acceleration called something like hardwarecursor.  Read the card documentation
> for your card, in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc.
> 
> Somewhere in there, or in one of those, is a way to shut that option off. 
> (supposedly it works on some cards, Ive never seen it work, and it allways
> makes a mess.  At least, that sounds to me like what you describe.
> 
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