Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:17:45 +0200 From: Thomas Mueller <tmueller@sysgo.com> To: Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk@voicenet.com> Cc: x11@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: oddity with update to 7.3 and the mouse Message-ID: <20070926111745.43ea3618@tom.ulm.sysgo.com> In-Reply-To: <1190796021.1056.5.camel@sorrow.ashke.com> References: <20070925215830.561c6147@vixen42> <20070926053513.5582B45012@ptavv.es.net> <20070926021226.7b07180c@vixen42> <1190796021.1056.5.camel@sorrow.ashke.com>
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On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:40:21 -0400, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote: > This is what nvidia has to say: > > "Mouse problem with X.org 7.3 and multiple X screens or Xinerama" > > "The version of xf86-input-mouse shipped with X.org 7.3 contains a bug > that confines the pointer to one of the screens. You can avoid this > problem by using the xf86-input-evdev driver instead." > > That's from: > > http://nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=72490 > > That's on the nvnews linux forum. Since I believe evdev is linux > specific, that clearly won't work for FreeBSD users. Refer to http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12145. I applied this patch http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/driver/xf86-input-mouse.git;a=commitdiff;h=f42ea3027c13046dfa7a603737b476fbf2833764 to xf86-input-mouse and my dual-head setup is back to normal wrt the mouse problem. -- Thomas Mueller
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