Bug 194465 – xf86-input-evdev-1.1.5-r1 in combination with >=xorg-server-1.4 mouse locked at one screen w/ multi-head

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Timon Van Overveldt 2007-10-02 00:20:06 UTC]

I'm using xorg-server-1.4-r2 with a dual-head setup.
I had a problem with my mouse being locked at one screen and then I found this bug http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192657

I had the exact same behaviour, and at first I thought the fix would also affect me but I forgot I was using the xf86-input-evdev driver for my mouse.

So I applied the patch to the xf86-input-evdev-1.1.5-r1 ebuild by creating another ebuild and adding the patch.
It was succesful.

Reproducible: always

Steps to reproduce:
The problem occurs every time

Actual results:
X started to Screen 1, Mouse is at Screen 1. If I go to Screen 2 with Mouse,
the Mouse can't go back to Screen 1, but to Screen 3. If the Mouse is at Screen
3, the same Problem.

Expected Results:  
The Mouse should go over every Screen and back again.

emerge --info 

Portage 2.1.3.11 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0, gcc-4.2.0, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.22.1 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.22.1 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+
Timestamp of tree: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 22:50:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p17-r1
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r4, 2.5.1-r2
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0_rc4-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r2
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.24
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.22-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -msse3"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -msse3"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="ccache confcache distlocks metadata-transfer noinfo parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ "
LINGUAS="en nl"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/java-gcj-overlay /usr/portage/local /usr/portage/local/kvm/maintainer /usr/portage/local/foldingathome"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac aalib acl alsa amd64 apache2 asf async audacious automount avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin busybox bzip2 cairo cdr cgi cli color-console cpudetection cracklib crypt ctype cups curl curlwrappers dbus device-mapper divx divx4linux dri dts dvd dvdread encode examples exif extraengine fat ffmpeg flac fluxbox fortran ftp gd gdbm gif glut gmedia gpm gtk gtk+ gtk2 hash iconv idle imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog java javascript jfs jpeg json latin1 libnotify mad mhash midi ming mmx mmxext mozdevelop mozilla mp3 mp4 mpeg mplayer msn mudflap mysql mysqli ncurses netboot nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs nvidia ogg opengl openmp oss pam pango pcre pdf perl png pnm ppds pppd python quicktime rar readline realmedia reflection reiser4 reiserfs sdl session smp soap sockets spl sqlite srt sse sse2 ssl ssse3 svg sysfs tables tcltk tcpd theora threads tidy tiff tk trayicon truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb vhosts vim-syntax vorbis wma wmf wmp wmv x264 xforms xfs xhtml xine xinerama xml2 xorg xpm xsl xv xvid xvmc zip zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel usb-audio" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en nl" LIRC_DEVICES="logitech mceusb2" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa nv vga fbdev nvidia"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

I included the patch and the new ebuild.

For further info see bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192657

[Comment 1 Timon Van Overveldt 2007-10-02 00:20:52 UTC]

Created attachment 132357 [details]
Updated ebuild

[Comment 2 Timon Van Overveldt 2007-10-02 00:21:41 UTC]

Created attachment 132359 [details, diff]
Patch to the affected file in the driver

[Comment 3 Robin Johnson 2007-10-02 21:32:56 UTC]

Cardoe: I confirm that this patch works and fixes the issue! Please put it in the tree.

[Comment 4 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) 2007-10-02 21:42:25 UTC]

Thanks for the patch. Committed in xf86-input-evdev-1.1.5-r2