X in the middle of the screen

[Daniel Stone]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 07:41:13PM -0500, Steve Bromley wrote:
> I've just installed the new full release of Warty onto an older box with
> an old S3 Savage video card.  This is an old box I had in the corner and
> hadn't used in a while.  Anyway, Warty detected everything and installed
> without a problem but once Gnome started up (after the splash screen), I
> get an X right in the middle of the screen.  Everything still works but
> I don't have a clue as to how to get rid of it.  The keyboard and mouse
> work but the cursors seem to go under the X. It's almost like the X is
> above everything on the screen.
> 
> Any ideas as to what happened and how I can fix it?

Edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, add 'Option "SWCursor"' to the Device
section, save, and run /etc/init.d/gdm restart as root.

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Daniel Stone                                        <daniel.stone at canonical.com>
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