Linux stops working

[Bruce Byfield]

On Mon, 2007-27-08 at 12:30 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:

>     I have Googled for nVIDIA and found not much. Tried nVIDIA, Linux 
> and found some things but not what I am looking for. All about nVIDIA 
> drivers which work on Windows but not Linux. Will try software pointer.

It took me about two minutes to find the reference. 

The solution is to add the line

Option "HWCursor" "false"

to the section of xorg.conf that defines the video card.

I don't know whether that works, though. I'm just going to test it.

Meanwhile, as an extreme kludge, keep moving the mouse as you login. I
find that that works.

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