mouse gets stuck on second screen

Dan Nicholson dbn.lists at gmail.com
Mon Jun 7 13:10:16 PDT 2010


On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 1:04 PM, David Bridgham <dab at froghouse.org> wrote:
> On 06/07/2010 03:22 PM, Dan Nicholson wrote:
>
>> So, this is zaphod mode with the radeonhd driver. Maybe you can try
>> using the radeon driver? I know there have been some fixes recently to
>> zaphod mode, although I don't know if that will fix the input issues.
>>
>>
>
> Took me a bit to figure out zaphod mode.  I hadn't heard that term
> before.  I like.
>
> I tried the radeon driver and surprisingly, at least to me, it has
> exactly the same problem.  It also shows the same output on the two
> monitors on each video card but presumably I could figure that out if I
> played with it some.  However, the problem with the mouse becoming
> trapped on Screen1 once it goes there is just the same as with the
> radeonhd driver.

Hmm. Could very well be a problem in the server. I don't use zaphod
mode, but I understand it was broken for a long time. You might want
to file a bug, but hopefully someone can help you out here.

--
Dan



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