Adding
Option "HWCursor" "false"
to the "Device" section of XFree86-4 seems to have solved the problem
for me. Perhaps the bug should be closed (or reassigned to an XFree86
package)? Obviously, there is something about Gnome that triggers the
problem, but perhaps the fault lies with the default setting of this
option.
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Jouni K Sepp=E4nen