[PLUG] Pointer issue

Kenneth G. Stephens kens at cad2cam.com
Tue Jun 6 04:59:07 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 19:25 -0700, Christian Bewley wrote:
> I need a little help here displaying my pointer correctly. It is 
> supposed to be displayed as an arrow, but all I am seeing is a ugly 
> looking block. So, here is some info
> Freshly installed Debian as of today (June 5, 2006)
> (the way that I installed)
> base install only ~sarge~
> edit sources.list
> dist-upgrade to sid
> installed xutils mdetect x-window-system gdm gnome apt-buglists apt-file 
> synaptic
> startx (Perfectly runs)
> installed (with -f option) kernel-image-2.6-686
> 
> Hardware is a
> sony vaio
> 700mhz cpu,
> 128 ram
> neomagic video
> 
> 
> This gives me a great running system with the exception pointer. So, Can 
> someone help me out with this?
> 
> 
> Christian

Check your color depth in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf or XF86Config file.
You may have 8 or 16 selected.  You might chose 24 or 32 as your color
default under the Screens section.

Ken
CAD2CAM.COM




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