Bug 13107

Summary:	mouse pointer flicks to left side of the screen screen
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	George Michaelson <ggm>
Component:	Input/Mouse	Assignee:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	ggm, joerg
Version:	git
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	NetBSD
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i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description George Michaelson 2007-11-05 18:11:28 UTC

using either xf86-input-mouse, or openbsd-input-ws, I have a problem that on the current modular server, the mouse flicks to the left side of screen. This happens when (a) the mouse sensitivity is high (b) I am moving the mouse over GTK apps (c) a lot of pane/button/border related changes happen. Eg, a GTK/Gnome application, drag over its border or an inner-pane border, which causes the border to flick colour AND buttons to bolden AND popups to happen. In these circumstances, the mouse appears to force to absolute_x position zero, no change in absolute_y.

because it happens irrespective of the two input codes, and because they are quite different codes, I believe this lies in the XInput changes inside the server.

this doesn't happen on the older modular-xorg state like 1.3.0.0. It does happen on 1.3.99

I can partially remediate the problem by xset m 1 10 -making the mouse have zero accelleration, and as slow as sludge. its not a complete fix: this still happens.

$ gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: i386--netbsdelf
Configured with: /home/nick/work/netbsd/src-current/tools/gcc/../../gnu/dist/gcc4/configure --enable-long-long --disable-multilib --enable-threads --disable-symvers --build=i386-unknown-netbsdelf4.99.28 --host=i386--netbsdelf --target=i386--netbsdelf --enable-__cxa_atexit
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.1.3 20070620 prerelease (NetBSD nb1 20070620)
$
$ uname -a
NetBSD garlique.algebras.org 4.99.34 NetBSD 4.99.34 (GGM_ACPI) #2: Mon Nov 5 11:23:46 EST 2007 ggm@garlique.algebras.org:/data/Build/obj/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GGM_ACPI i386
$

it happens dualhead, AND single head.

Comment 1 George Michaelson 2007-11-05 18:12:38 UTC

here is a pointer to some debug info From Blair Sadewitz, which I think is relevant:

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2007/08/06/0007.html

I've discussed this problem with Blair in the past. He doesn't have cycles to do a deep debug at this point. I'm just a l(user)

Comment 2 George Michaelson 2007-12-05 09:02:40 UTC

After reading bugs, and seeking advice, I believe this is a duplicate of 3113.

I have marked it duplicate and will comment on 3113: even after the patching, I still have this problem with NetBSD current and 1.4

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 3113 ***

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