Linux stops working

[Karl Larsen]

Bruce Byfield wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-27-08 at 12:30 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>
>   
>>     I have Googled for nVIDIA and found not much. Tried nVIDIA, Linux 
>> and found some things but not what I am looking for. All about nVIDIA 
>> drivers which work on Windows but not Linux. Will try software pointer.
>>     
>
> It took me about two minutes to find the reference. 
>
> The solution is to add the line
>
> Option "HWCursor" "false"
>
> to the section of xorg.conf that defines the video card.
>
> I don't know whether that works, though. I'm just going to test it.
>
> Meanwhile, as an extreme kludge, keep moving the mouse as you login. I
> find that that works.
>
>   
    I will try both :-)

Thank you so much. I will look for

Option "HWCursor" "false"

and if not there I will add it. And thank you so very much!


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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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