pjs@euclid.jpl.nasa.gov (Peter Scott) (10/09/90)
This is probably due to a new mouse driver in SunOS 4.1, but I want to find out the ramifications. I just built X11R4.18 on a SPARC IPC with SunOS 4.1, and the mouse cursor wraps around left-right. (If I keep mousing to the right when the cursor's at the RHS, the cursor goes off the edge and shortly reappears on the left.) Doesn't wrap around top-bottom. On the Sun 3-160 under SunOS 4.0.3, it doesn't wrap in either direction. I am curious to know what coordinates the mouse is returning during the time it's off the screen... (there's an interval of about 3/4 screen width of movement before it reappears). -- This is news. This is your | Peter Scott, NASA/JPL/Caltech brain on news. Any questions? | (pjs@aristotle.jpl.nasa.gov)
mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU (10/12/90)
> This is probably due to a new mouse driver in SunOS 4.1, but I want > to find out the ramifications. I just built X11R4.18 on a SPARC IPC > with SunOS 4.1, and the mouse cursor wraps around left-right. (If I > keep mousing to the right when the cursor's at the RHS, the cursor > goes off the edge and shortly reappears on the left.) > Doesn't wrap around top-bottom. On the Sun 3-160 under SunOS 4.0.3, > it doesn't wrap in either direction. > I am curious to know what coordinates the mouse is returning during > the time it's off the screen... (there's an interval of about 3/4 > screen width of movement before it reappears). This sounds singularly like multiheadedness. Does xdpyinfo report more than one screen on the display? If so, this is just the normal motion from one screen to another. Check /dev for stray entries; in particular, you should not have a device-specific /dev entry corresponding to your /dev/fb device. For example, if /dev/fb is bwtwo0, /dev/bwtwo0 should not exist; if /dev/fb is cgthree0, /dev/cgthree0 should not exist. If it's not multiheadedness, I have no clue what's up. I doubt that it's the mouse driver returning off-the-wall coordinates, though. (What happened to grouch, btw? Or am I thinking of a different pjs?) der Mouse old: mcgill-vision!mouse new: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu