Hi,
I'm a new user of Linux. I've installed Linux Red Hat 6.2, then I've
started Xconfigurator to change monitor resolution from 640x480 to 800x600.
Now the monitor is ok, but the mouse pointer became a very-big white square!
I want the old arrow!
What should I do?
TIA

On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 21:45:12 +0100, Scilli <agaugli@libero.it> wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm a new user of Linux. I've installed Linux Red Hat 6.2, then I've
> started Xconfigurator to change monitor resolution from 640x480 to 800x600.
> Now the monitor is ok, but the mouse pointer became a very-big white square!
> I want the old arrow!
> What should I do?

I don't know your problem, but it strikes me that Red Hat 6.2 is very old,
there may better support for your hardware in later versions. Which brings
me to the next thing that strikes me, you don't tell what kind of hardware
you are running on.

Xconfigurator writes /etc/X11/XF86Config, check if you have a backup
of this file as it was before, and post here the differences. If not,
post the file as is.

One reason people sometimes prefer older distributions is that they
want to run on old hardware, with little memory, etc. Newer distros
are rather bloated and require at least 200 Mbyte ram, for instance.
However, if this is your problem, consider one of the smaller distros,
like Damn Small Linux (http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/).

If memory is not a constraint, the current successor to Red Hat is
Fedora Core 4. (Red Hat now specializes in commercial distributions
with support, but sponsors development of Fedora.) There is an
upcoming FC5, expected around February.

You should also consider posting to comp.os.linux.x which specializes
in X related stuff.

-Enrique

"Enrique Perez-Terron" <enrio@online.no> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 21:45:12 +0100, Scilli <agaugli@libero.it> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I'm a new user of Linux. I've installed Linux Red Hat 6.2, then I've
>> started Xconfigurator to change monitor resolution from 640x480 to
>> 800x600.
>> Now the monitor is ok, but the mouse pointer became a very-big white
>> square!
>> I want the old arrow!
>> What should I do?
>
> I don't know your problem, but it strikes me that Red Hat 6.2 is very old,
> there may better support for your hardware in later versions. Which brings
> me to the next thing that strikes me, you don't tell what kind of hardware
> you are running on.

Agreed. If the hardware is old and won't take a modern distribution, RedHat
7.3 is still available at www.fedoralegacy.org, along with occasional
security updates.

> Xconfigurator writes /etc/X11/XF86Config, check if you have a backup
> of this file as it was before, and post here the differences. If not,
> post the file as is.

Definitely save those files in another location, along with the old
XF86Config.bak backup file. (I believe that's its name, generated by
Xconfiguratior.) RedHat 6.x also had another tool if you needed to get more
into the details of things, called "xf86config", which may be available for
you, and the mouse could be set with "mouseconfig" if I remember the tools
correctly.

Those have since been replaced with much better, more integrated tools like
"system-config-display" and "system-config-mouse" that do much better jobs
of supporting all the different hardware.

> If memory is not a constraint, the current successor to Red Hat is
> Fedora Core 4. (Red Hat now specializes in commercial distributions
> with support, but sponsors development of Fedora.) There is an
> upcoming FC5, expected around February.

I've been poking at FC 4.90, the test release. It's very bleeding edge and
not ready for testing except for masochists who are happy to pay for their
RedHat releases by writing the workarounds and sending them in.