Problem with mouse input "freeze"

[Oldřich Jedlička]

Hi Peter,

Dne čtvrtek 07 Leden 2010 07:09:21 Peter Hutterer napsal(a):
> On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 09:00:55PM +0100, Oldřich Jedlička wrote:
> > Hi list and Peter,
> >
> > this is a continuation from linuxwacom-devel mailing list - the full
> > thread (few messages actually) can be found here
> >
> >  
> > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=201001022352.4845
> >9.oldium.pro%40seznam.cz
> >
> > So let's start from the beginning. I had a problem: when I pressed a key
> > on keyboard, then a PAD button on tablet that emitted a key and then a
> > normal PAD button on the tablet, the mouse moved to [0,0] and mouse input
> > "freezed". The "freeze" means that mouse (tablet/ordinary mouse) moves,
> > but there are no hover effects, no menu selection, no clicks accepted by
> > applications - until some key is pressed.
> >
> > The move to [0,0] has been fixed by the patch from Peter Hutterer from
> > this mailing list - patch with subject:
> >
> >   [PATCH v2] dix: don't update the slave coordinates from the VCK.
> >
> > The mouse input "freeze" problem is still there, the steps to reproduce
> > have changed: I have to press a key on keyboard, then double-click button
> > 2 on tablet (no movement events in between - reproduced both with tablet
> > PAD key and with tablet pen). What happens is that with only the
> > single-click the local menu opens (but everything works); with
> > double-click the menu opens, but doesn't go away as usual - the mouse
> > input "freezes" instead (as described above).
> >
> > My guess is that there are still some valuators problems, so that the
> > application grabs the mouse input and doesn't know what to do next.
> 
> can I assume you only have one master device and you aren't playing around
> with MPX? what's the output of xinput --list --short? is the pad a floating
> slave?
> 
> I can't reproduce it here, neither on 1.7 nor on master so I might need
>  some special setup.

I will add some logging to valuators update function (the code touched in your 
latest patch and updateStaveDeviceCoords) in the evening, just to be sure that 
the valuators are updated and kept correctly. If you point me to some other 
place in code, I can add logging there too.

Cheers,
Oldřich.

> 
> Cheers,
>   Peter
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