MPX merge coming up

Peter Hutterer peter at cs.unisa.edu.au
Wed May 14 04:56:51 PDT 2008


On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 02:21:59AM -0700, Brian Rogers wrote:
> Peter Hutterer wrote:
> > If you only ever use one cursor and one keyboard focus, you should not notice
> > any differences. If you do, please file a bug.
> 
> MPX-related bug reports would typically belong in the Input/Core 
> component, I'm guessing? Should I assign to you or CC you?

yes, please assign to me.
Also - for now in the bugreport please specify that it's the mpx branch

> I have been playing with MPX, and I've noticed two bugs.
> 
> 1. Qt-based scrollbars don't respond to mouse input.
bloody hell, guess it's time to fire up KDE again. I should have time to look
at this tomorrow.

> 2. Applications grabbing the pointer can crash X.
> 
> Both of these issues trigger even with just one pointer, but I checked 
> the master branch and they don't occur there.
> 
> Issue 1 can be seen in Konsole, for example, and issue 2 can be seen by 
> running Planet Penguin Racer and starting a race. Alternatively, you can 
> run dosbox and hit ctrl-F10 to grab the cursor. Then on mouse movement, 
> it crashes.
> 
> The log file has plenty of these:
> 
> [mi] Unknown event type, cannot change id.
> 
> Followed by this:
> 
> Fatal server error:
> Bad valuators reported for device ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse
> 
that's almost surely DGA, as daniel said. I'll look at it, thanks.

Cheers,
  Peter



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