Bug 21991 – ati-driver 2.9.12 produces mouse problems in opengl games

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Gregor Riepl 2003-05-31 05:02:00 UTC]

I was very happy when ati-driver 2.9.12 finally came since I could switch to XFree86 
4.3 at last. 
But unfortunately, a severe problem arose: 
When I start games that use OpenGL (like Q3A, RTCW, SSam) I cannot use the mouse 
any more. The cursors becomes very jumpy (e.g. moves at ~ triple speed) and doesn't 
react to motion to the left or up any more. 
As soon as I quit the game and get back into WM mode everything returns to normal. 
Also, windowed GL programs work fine. 
 
I have an Athlon XP 2100+ with 256MB DDR333 RAM, a Radeon 9000 based video card 
and a Logitech Cordless Desktop Optical on the PS2 ports (mouse type: Cordless 
MouseMan Optical). 
ati-drivers is 2.9.12 and XFree86 4.3.0-r2. 
 
Has someone a clue what could cause this? Do those games try to access the mouse 
directly? 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
 



Portage 2.0.48 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1) 
================================================================= 
System uname: 2.4.20 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2100+ 
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/ 
http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/ http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" 
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config 
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config 
/usr/share/config" 
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/init.d /etc/env.d" 
PORTDIR="/usr/portage" 
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" 
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" 
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" 
USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi crypt encode jpeg libg++ mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls 
pdflib png quicktime spell xml2 xmms xv zlib gtkhtml gdbm berkdb slang readline arts 
tetex aalib bonobo svga tcltk java guile sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd 
imlib oggvorbis qt mozilla cdr X gtk2 gtk gnome kde alsa cups motif gif dvd lirc mysql 
apache2 sse opengl truetype" 
COMPILER="gcc3" 
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" 
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" 
MAKEOPTS="-j2" 
AUTOCLEAN="no" 
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" 
FEATURES="sandbox ccache"

[Comment 1 Luca Barbato 2003-06-02 19:33:39 UTC]

make sure you have the DGA extension disabled

that is the way to disable it:

#instead of 

Load "extmod"

#do

Subsection "extmod"
  Option "omit xfree86-dga"
EndSubSection

please refer to fglrxconfig generated as example.

[Comment 2 Arkadi Shishlov 2003-06-03 14:53:06 UTC]

It is actually not ati-drivers fault, but game engines incompatibilities with xfree86 4.3 dga mouse. Not a bug. For quake3 use 1.32b, it suppose to work dga, in quake based games set in_dgamouse 0, in case you do not want to disable dga system wide.

[Comment 3 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2003-06-03 15:09:52 UTC]

closing

[Comment 4 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2003-09-25 12:38:52 UTC]

closing again.  From the comments is looks like INVALID.