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From: Paul Lalonde <plalonde@telus.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Video and mouse problems
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None of those did a thing.  A related clue is that I have a narrow (<5 
pixels) black strip on the left of my screen, with a white square at the 
top the height of my cursor that moves a little as the cursor changes shape.

It feels like a mis-aligned memory map or somesuch.  I'll keep digging.

Paul

Russ Cox wrote:

>I assume you tried rebooting when the cursor
>didn't work?  Andrey was right about moving
>the mouse screwing it up, but waiting doesn't
>always clear the problem.  If you have a 
>window open then doing "echo reset >/dev/mousectl"
>sometimes does.  So would rebooting.
>
>Russ
>
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