Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 18:22:37 +1000 From: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> To: Matthew Thyer <thyerm@camtech.com.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 xsetpointer causes silo overflows (Was: Re: Fixed my MAMEd sio problem.) Message-ID: <19990519182237.H29455@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <37418C29.DEECA1AC@camtech.com.au>; from Matthew Thyer on Wed, May 19, 1999 at 01:20:01AM %2B0930 References: <199905170127.LAA04147@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <37418C29.DEECA1AC@camtech.com.au>
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On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 01:20:01AM +0930, Matthew Thyer wrote: >I have confirmed that the problem occurs if I just do: > > xsetpointer Joystick > sleep 1 > xsetpointer pointer > >So M.A.M.E. is unrelated to the problem as Bruce Evans would suggest. > >So the problem appears to be with XFree86 not closing the joystick >device after I've used it as a pointer with 'xsetpointer'. The problem is in the joystick driver (or are silo overflows acceptable while you actually want to use the joystick?). >I am sure I am using xsetpointer correctly as I can use my PC joystick >as a pointing device (once I calibrate it). > >I was just using xsetpointer with an incorrectly calibrated joystick >so it moved the pointer to the top left corner of the screen in my >xmame.sh shell script (I'd like to know how to do this another way). A better way would be a small X client that uses XWarpPointer(3). David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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