mouse stuck on left side of screen

Adam Jackson ajax at nwnk.net
Tue Nov 29 18:22:33 PST 2005


On Tuesday 29 November 2005 20:02, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> I was surfing in firefox when my pointer disappeared. Moving my mouse up
> and down (even without button pushed) was making my browser window scroll.
> I pressed a mouse pointer and that behaviour stopped.
>
> I moved my mouse and I saw it moving up and down on my left side of the
> display. I could move it fast up and down, but didn't seem to go to the
> right.
>
> It seems like I read about someone having this problem before, but can't
> find via google.

The only bell this is ringing is regarding the new mouse acceleration code.  
There was a bug in some versions of FreeBSD (maybe Open and Net too) where 
FPU context wasn't being properly saved or restored on signals, so since the 
mouse code runs from SIGIO occasionally you'd get bogus FPU state and the 
mouse would slam against an edge.

I think Matthieu said they had a regression case for it now, might want to 
make sure netbsd passes it.

- ajax
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