It could be a problem with the video card. I got this fix from Richard Pace:
"The workaround is to disable hardware cursor in xorg.conf.
Add the following line in the device section for your video card:
Option "HWCursor" "off"
Let me know if it works!
ps
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- Wed 03 Sep 2008, 09:41
- Forum: Puppy Derivatives
- Topic: Mouse pointer disappears in 2.15 CE
- Replies: 15
- Views: 15254
- Sun 13 Jan 2008, 07:57
- Forum: Puppy Projects
- Topic: Puppy 2.15CE "Viz" - Patches and Updates
- Replies: 34
- Views: 50086
mouse cursor diappears
This is what I found in the KDE.Linux list "On Friday 26 January 2007 10:27, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote: > Is your video card an nvidia one? If so, there's a bug in nvidia driver > that causes exactly this problem with some nvidia cards (not all). The > workaround is to disable hardware cursor in ...
- Sun 13 Jan 2008, 07:52
- Forum: Puppy Derivatives
- Topic: lighthouse pup cursor issue
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8049
lost mouse pointer
This is what I found in the KDE Linux list:. "On Friday 26 January 2007 10:27, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote: > Is your video card an nvidia one? If so, there's a bug in nvidia driver > that causes exactly this problem with some nvidia cards (not all). The > workaround is to disable hardware cursor ...
- Sun 13 Jan 2008, 07:47
- Forum: Puppy Derivatives
- Topic: Mouse pointer disappears in 2.15 CE
- Replies: 15
- Views: 15254
Nvidia
This is what I found in the KDE Linux list. "On Friday 26 January 2007 10:27, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote: > Is your video card an nvidia one? If so, there's a bug in nvidia driver > that causes exactly this problem with some nvidia cards (not all). The > workaround is to disable hardware cursor in ...
- Sat 12 Jan 2008, 22:13
- Forum: Puppy Projects
- Topic: Puppy 2.15CE "Viz" - Patches and Updates
- Replies: 34
- Views: 50086
mouse pointer
mouse pointer disappears - I have the same problem - had it with 2.17 and have it now with 3.1. Seems I started having the prob since getting a new MB with a dual core AMD cpu. What cpu's do you people have? Coudl that be the problem?
- Sat 12 Jan 2008, 22:04
- Forum: Puppy Derivatives
- Topic: Mouse pointer disappears in 2.15 CE
- Replies: 15
- Views: 15254
mouse pointer disappears
I have the same problem - had it with 2.17 and have it now with 3.1. Seems I started having the prob since getting a new MB with a dual core AMD cpu. What cpu's do you people have?[/quote]
- Tue 01 Jan 2008, 23:34
- Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
- Topic: How to upgrade USB flash Puppy?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 9209
How to upgrade to new version
I ran 2.17 off my sata hdd and was very happy with it until it started to act up (e.g. the cursor would disappear after a while). I read in one of the forums that to upgrade all you had to do was replace the old initrd and vmlinuz files with the new ones - which I did (stupidly, I didi not keep the ...