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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.)
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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


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