[lug] Laptop recommendations

Peter Hutnick peter-lists at hutnick.com
Mon May 13 11:31:27 MDT 2002


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On Monday 13 May 2002 11:28 am, Andrew R. Diederich wrote:
> I like my IBM A22m (work's laptop).  It runs win2k fine, I've put recent
> Krud on it, too.  I loaded SuSE 8.0 on it for fun this weekend, and I have
> X problems -- the top 1" of the screen is at the bottom, but the mouse
> cursor is in the right place.  Weird.

Probably not weird.  The hardware cursor isn't confused, but the software 
driver is.

I got a nickel that says if you turn the hardware cursor feature of X off your 
mouse pointer will seem less weird to you.  (But your screen will seem just 
as weird as always.)

- -Peter

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