Bug 206731

Summary:	x11-base/xorg-server mouse acceleration bug (patch available)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Javeed Shaikh <syscrash2k>
Component:	[OLD] Server	Assignee:	Gentoo X packagers <x11>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13808
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Javeed Shaikh 2008-01-20 02:36:39 UTC

xorg-server has a nasty mouse acceleration bug.
I fixed it a while ago, but they haven't said anything yet.

Here's the URL to upstream bugzilla, with the patch.

It would be awesome if the patch could be included in the
ebuild.

Comment 1 Javeed Shaikh 2008-01-20 02:37:11 UTC

Forgot the link...
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13808

Comment 2 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-01-21 02:48:48 UTC

Javeed,

I'll be happy to incorporate the patch as soon as it's committed upstream. Please reopen this bug when that happens.

You might want to change the upstream component to Input/Core.

Comment 3 Javeed Shaikh 2008-01-23 00:30:44 UTC

Upstream says they won't do it until 1.5 since it breaks ABI.

That shouldn't really affect us gentoo people though, should it?

(And to be honest, I don't think anyone relied on the brokenness
of the acceleration infrastructure... in the entire source code,
those variables are used only in one function, the one that
applies acceleration.)

Comment 4 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-01-23 03:10:59 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> Upstream says they won't do it until 1.5 since it breaks ABI.
> 
> That shouldn't really affect us gentoo people though, should it?

Yeah it does, because that means people have to rebuild all their drivers after a revbump. It's very painful to make users do that, however easy it might seem.