Xorg-server 1.4 series and my earlier posting

[Maarten Maathuis]

Then i suggest you try:

http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/app/xf86dga.git;a=summary

To see if your driver claims dga support. If it does, then it may be
that dga is somehow broken. At that point i can't help you.

Maarten.

On 2/8/08, Billy DeVincentis <billydv1 at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>  Maarten Maathuis wrote:
>  This is a bug in libsdl, please update to at least version 1.2.12.
>
> Snippet:
>
> SDL 1.2.12 Release Notes
>
> Fixed detection of X11 DGA mouse support.
>
> On 2/8/08, Billy DeVincentis <billydv1 at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>
>  We have found the problem but what can be done about it I'm
> not sure. Something in the changes between xorg 1.3 and 1.4
> now creates a necessity to start sdl games with
> export SDL_VIDEO_X11_DGAMOUSE=0
> After this mouse is fine.
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>
>  I  have  1.2.13  installed  and  furthermore  with  the  same  1.2.13
> libsdl  package,  it  works  fine  in  xorg-server  1.3  and  with  no
> other  changes  except  upgrading  the  following  to  go  to  xorg-server
> 1.4  it  fails.
>  Calculating world dependencies... done!
>  [ebuild     UD] x11-proto/renderproto-0.9.2 [0.9.3]
>  [ebuild     UD] x11-libs/libXrender-0.9.2 [0.9.4]
>  [ebuild     UD] x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-1.1.5-r2 [1.2.0]
>  [ebuild     UD] x11-drivers/xf86-video-mga-1.4.6.1 [1.4.7]
>  [ebuild     UD] x11-base/xorg-server-1.3.0.0-r4 [1.4.0.90-r2] USE="nptl*"
>  [ebuild     UD] x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard-1.1.1-r1 [1.2.2]
>  [ebuild     UD] x11-drivers/xf86-input-joystick-1.2.2 [1.3.1]
>  [ebuild     UD] x11-base/xorg-x11-7.2 [7.3]
>
>