Mouse cursor inverted ?

[Thomas Beckett]

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 21:17:02 +0100, Vincent Trouilliez
<vincent.trouilliez at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> A little strange thing (to the basic user that I am anyway ;o) is that
> my mouse cursor goes black soon after I log-in. No idea why. Sometimes
> it will turn back to white, then again later become black again.
> 
> Any body experiencing the same ? Any idea what could cause this
> problem ? Is the cursor managed by Gnome of by 'X' ?
> 
> Vince, black...white...oh no, black again... ;-)
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This sounds like it could be a hardware cursor issue, try adding:

Option         "HWCursor"        "false"

to /etc/X11/xorg.conf 

in the device section and restart X (ctrl + Alt + Backspace) 

Hope it helps