I have an X stuck on my desktop

[Frank Daley]

I have tried the solution on my IBM Thinkpad suggested by Paul Sladen >>

>Sounds like a Hardware-Cursor problem in X (interacting with the
>video-card in your laptop).  Could you help try and track it down
>by disabling the Hardware Cursor by adding the option as follows;  in the
>file:
>
>  /etc/X11/XF86Config
>
>Try adding an "Option" line like:
>
>  Section "Device"
>    ...
>    Option SWCursor on
>    ...
>  EndSection

Actually it was /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 on my machine. However adding
the line caused X to fail on next reboot & I had to remove that line
so that X could start.

Was there another step I was supposed to do?

-- Frank