From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 12 08:15:46 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BC2E106564A; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 08:15:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gpagnoni@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iw0-f182.google.com (mail-iw0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04C928FC0C; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 08:15:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn8 with SMTP id 8so5868852iwn.13 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 01:15:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=wET4vNcPIYjgt9DJofD48u3OwaaiBYqVezrNFScJrC8=; b=BwWaaFVOcuS3deGOoMV2GAeatqXau83+J2tNMJuNqCdvRkX0OHTACfY+PA1hiAolWD GtkQjE90vahQvv3uteoNjKxR4q1XXxUP26+CMbk3WtPylSW2UeAHjEoKdkd2V7oDUnF1 Pnun4hFrT43H4R4trs8dHFIN9MdgtZs0pazPc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=kKa9lB0dw1rOOfSNo6xDyVJP1RsA57upZ8QZYx6wlRuUUMtJ3tT0CaqqVuGn5ZXm1f L0OubZZLGmt5zNwlRo7h3lV757cTgP18Edr6oWMs8rhb4McG4/mu5C3pYHcXLJu52zGW +6MrJ6SJ87oWNuZkPUsd10l0cidM9o4lIP2hc= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.42.7.68 with SMTP id d4mr2234023icd.36.1286871345401; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 01:15:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.147.138 with HTTP; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 01:15:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20101011164312.GC80560@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu> References: <20101011164312.GC80560@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:15:45 +0200 Message-ID: From: Giuseppe Pagnoni To: Giuseppe Pagnoni , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Subject: Re: Xorg 7.5 and OpenMotif: mouse stuck in box X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 08:15:46 -0000 Dear William, excellent! The patch you pointed me to works for me too. Thank you so much for your help, I am going to send an email to the port maintainers to see whether they can fix this in the ports tree. very best giuseppe On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 6:43 PM, William Bulley wrote: > According to Giuseppe Pagnoni on Mon, 10/11/10 at 10= :57: >> >> thank you very much for your reply, it does seem to be the same type >> of bug. =A0However, and I apologize for being dense here, it is not >> immediate to me how to proceed practically to apply the patch from >> within the ports framework. =A0Also, I still wonder why the patch hasn't >> been incorporated in the tree given that the bug is known.... > > I am not able to answer your final question - that is left to the ports > maintainers to address. > > I simply installed the latest (was it 1.7.5) xorg-server at that time > and added those half dozen patches. =A0If 1.7.7 solved the problem, then > I'm not sure what issue(s) you have. =A0If you want to have FreeBSD ports > upgraded, I would contact the port's maintainers directly. > > I chose not to install xorg-server 1.7.7 since I was unsure if there > were other dependencies or issues that might arise from doing so. =A0I'm > not used to "patch"ing a mature, released port, so for me even that was > a leap of faith! =A0:-) > > Just for clarity, I did not formally "patch" this port (xorg-server). > I went into the directory tree beneath the "work" directory, found the > dit/events.c file, and made those above mentioned (about six or so) > small source code patches. =A0I then re-made the port and re-installed > the port. =A0After it tested successfully, I reported my results to the > -questions list in case it would help others. =A0YMMV. =A0And good luck! > > Regards, > > web... > > -- > William Bulley =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Email: web@umich.e= du > > 72 characters width template ----------------------------------------->| > --=20 Giuseppe Pagnoni Dip. Scienze Biomediche Sezione Fisiologia Univ. di Modena e Reggio Emilia Via Campi 287 I-41125 Modena, Italy Tel: +39-059-205-5742 Fax: +39-059-205-5336