Carl -- LindowsOS

[Derek Neighbors]

der.hans said:
> debian installs and runs just fine on the $200 microtel boxen. I hooked
> up and ex-roommie and she's only had one problem with it. The problem
> was that the mouse click events were taking place a couple of
> centimeters from the pointer. This made playing mahjongg somewhat
> annoying :).
>
> My theory is that amor caused the problem. Unfortunately quitting it and
> even restarting X didn't fix the problem. The problem was present under
> KDE and GNOME.
>
> Doing the m$ shuffle fixed it.
>
> I told her not to run amor again.

Actually I have seen this on many video cards lately.  It is a hardware
problem that shows up randomly (usually after heavy mouse usage).  The bad
news is once it occurs I think a three finger salute is the only way to
fix it.  However, there is an option you can add to your XF86Config to
prevent it from happening.

In the video card section add this line:

Option   "SWCursor"   "true"

and re-start X.  This should elminate this 'off' cursor in the future.

-Derek