[KLUG Members] missing mouse curser

[Andrew Thompson]

On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 12:13, Brock Inglehart wrote:
> Installed SUSE 9.1 pro on a Compact R3240US laptop.  This laptop uses an AMD 
> 64 bit processor.  Am using Std. default KDE desktop.
> When connected to a remote monitor.  The screen is up and running fine but the 
> mouse cursor does not show on the remote monitor.  It does on the laptop's 
> local screen and works fine.  It just doesn't show on the remote. How can I 
> fix?

I think we're going to have to reinstall the native nVidia driver again,
which probably means we're going to have to make sure the build tools
are also installed. This is basically what we had to do the first time,
although it didn't seem to 'take' until later.

Actually, now that I think about it, SuSE actually makes a downloadable
package available through its update service. I don't remember exactly
why we didn't go that route the first time, but we might want to try
that first. If, for whatever reason, that doesn't work, we may have to
go ahead and do what we did before. If you want to try to get a head
start on that, try this:

1. Start YAST (main menu -> system -> YAST). You'll be asked for your
root password to continue.

2. In YAST, select "Install and Remove Software". It may take a minute,
but a new window will come up.

3. In the drop-down list to the upper left, select "Selections". You'll
see another list appear in the box below it. You want to check off the
following:

	3.1. C/C++ Compiler and Tools
	3.2. Kernel Development

4. Click the "Accept" button in the lower right of the window. You will
be prompted for one or more installation disks as the new software is
installed. Eventually, this will finish, another window will probably
come up as the system updates various settings, and finally you'll be
left with the first YAST window. You can just click the "Close" button
here, now.

5. Now, you'll need nVidia's package. There's several versions available
from this location: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux.html. I'm not
sure which version to recommend, but I think Linux IA32 is the best bet.
You might download the IA64 and AMD64 packages as well, just to be on
the safe side.

>From there, it gets a little trickier. The file you get may need to be
unpacked, and if I recall correctly, what you get is a binary file that
has to be made executable and then run. That we could probably do at a
meeting, but getting those files downloaded and the other packages
installed will save us a lot of time.
-- 
Andrew Thompson <tempes at ameritech.net>
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