Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:01:18 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Thomas Mueller <tmueller@sysgo.com> Cc: x11@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: oddity with update to 7.3 and the mouse Message-ID: <20070926160118.D5A1845013@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:17:45 %2B0200." <20070926111745.43ea3618@tom.ulm.sysgo.com>
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--==_Exmh_1190822478_67468P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline > Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:17:45 +0200 > From: Thomas Mueller <tmueller@sysgo.com> > Sender: owner-freebsd-x11@freebsd.org > > 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. Thanks very much! I'll apply this today and test tomorrow as I am not in the same location as the nVidia system today. It will be very nice to have it working again as it is my primary desktop. I will submit this in a PR in hopes that the port can be updated. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 --==_Exmh_1190822478_67468P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 06/03/2002 iD8DBQFG+oJOkn3rs5h7N1ERAiR2AJ975Cz14VawqhuIbuwSc2a7zwqh5gCbBvQU ykPjO2k6eXXjmzeZ/cD0Bm4= =iEQZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1190822478_67468P--
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