Canadian0812

It would help a whole lot if you gave us the brand, model and specs for your laptop.

Here's the xorg.conf file for my Toshiba A70 laptop. It may be of some use to you. C.

My mother (79 yr. old) got her first computer recently, on which I installed Mandrake 9.2 and selected KDE. She really likes it, however she sometimes has a problem seeing the mouse cursor even when the larger one supplied by KDE is selected. I searched through Google and there are some mentions of editing the .Xresources file, but on closer examination that doesn't seem to make a lot of sense. I also looked in /usr/share/applnk and while the mouse is referenced there are no configuration files that can be edited for effect. The KDE site was not much help either. I'm hoping that there is someone on this list that has encountered this problem and can point me in the right direction. John

There's a patch ( with instructions) available on the errata page of the Mandrake site. Canadian0812

This really sounds like a cooling problem and that your heatsink / fan is dirty,not powerful enough, or not working. You should open the case and see if the fan is working properly and also clean out any dust or debris that could be clogging the fins of the heat sink. I'd also check that there is a good amount of thermal paste between the cpu and the heatsink. Canadian0812