"X" cursor stays after desktop loads

[Nathaniel McCallum]

On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 04:39 -0400, Chris Bozic wrote:
> After I log in from GDM and my gnome desktop starts up, I have two
> mouse cursors.  One is the actual pointer cursor I'm supposed to have
> and the other is the default "X" shaped cursor that loads when you
> start a simple X session.  The "X" cursor is dead... in other words my
> mouse doesn't control it.  It stays floating over the center of my
> screen until I click any window's title bar.  Then it disappears until
> the next login.  I didn't see a bug listed for this or anything in the
> mail archives.   Is anyone else experiencing this?

adding Option "HWCursor" "false" to the video card section
in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 generally fixes this.

Nathaniel