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Hi,
I've got a fresh Salix 13 install on a very old Compaq desktop machine and generally speaking I'm extremely impressed with this distro.

But, there's one minor thing that's bugging me - the cursor constantly flickers whenever I move the mouse.

It's a USB mouse and there's nothing in the Xfce settings menu which seems to affect it, and I wondered if anyone had any ideas.
Cheers

How old is old? Perhaps you can try to use another mouse theme.

What graphics card do you have and what graphics driver is used?

'Old' as in a 900MHz AMD Duron processor - bought it very secondhand from a work colleague, I'm guessing it's close to 10 years old!
I think it has Nvidia graphics but I'm just running with the default Vesa driver which was configured during the install.

If it's nvidia, what you're running now should be the nv driver, not vesa. A look at the xorg logs can clear that up. But maybe you can also try a binary driver from nvidia. They do maintain a legacy version of their drivers for old models. You'll probably need to create a xorg.conf for that.

I'm not sure if the nv driver or even a nvidia binary driver will work for such old Riva TNT or TNT2 graphic cards. But I'm pretty sure there is a better driver than vesa.

Please run "lspci" as root to see what graphic card you are using.

I have an old PC with a TNT2 here and the legacy binary driver from nvidia works fine.

gapan wrote:I have an old PC with a TNT2 here and the legacy binary driver from nvidia works fine.

And does it compile on recent kernels?

Yes. Nvidia still maintain those drivers.