Problems with X mouse pointer

[Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov]

On 9/24/06, Ivan Rambius Ivanov <rambiusparkisanius at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> After an year of successful using of FreeBSD, a friend of mine asked
> me to install it on her laptop. The laptop is Pestigio Visconte 120
> with Intel 855 chipset.
>
> I installed FreeBSD 6.1 and run X with only one problem. The mouse
> pointer in X is not a normal arrow, but a white big square. I can use
> the mouse - the pointer, although a square, responds to moves and
> clicks. I googled and I found some threads about "redglass" and
> "whiteglass" themes and I have them in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons. Could
> you please help me in adjusting the pointer in the X environment?
>
> I also enabled the mouse in the text terminals and it works fine - the
> pointer is an arrow.
>
> I am attaching /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /etc/rc.conf (with network
> information masked) for completeness and uname -a gives:
> FreeBSD ****.**** 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Sun May  7
> 04:42:56 UTC 2006
> root at opus.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP  i386
>
> Thank you very much for your help in advance.
>
> Regards
> Ivan
>

Hello,

I found the solution by accident.

I enabled the following option

Option "SWcursor" "True"

in Section "Device" in xorg.conf, then I restarted X and the mouse
pointer was fine.

Regards
Ivan

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