Re: X.org cursor only moves horizontally

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20090129163755.GS24879%quartz.inf.phy.cam.ac.uk@localhost>,
Patrick Welche  <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost> wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 09:31:03PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>> In article <497E29EC.9030501%gmail.com@localhost>, I'Khala  
>> <nubisci%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>> >Afternoon All,
>> >I have an issue with my cursor with xorg on my i386 -current system. 
>> >Whenever I  start xorg either using startx or xdm, the cursor only moves
>> >horizontally.  I've seen  it on two of my workstations (Dell Optiplex
>> >270 and Dell Precision Workstation 650) and a laptop (Dell C840).  The
>> >Optiplex has and i810 graphics, while the Precision and the laptop uses
>> >the nvidia driver.  Anyone seen similar behavior?  Thanks!!
>> 
>> Yes, it is a known problem but the patch posted here seems to be in the
>> wrong place.
>
>Is this "prior art" for the wrong place?
>
>xsrc/external/mit/xf86-input-mouse/dist/src/mouse.c:1124:
>
>    /* XXX should handle this OS dependency elsewhere. */
>#ifndef __OS2ELF__
>    /* OS/2 has a mouse handled by the OS - it cannot fail here */
>
>

Yes... this is "prior art". I guess we've spent enough time debating this
so lets revert the ioctl changes from bsd_mouse.c and move them here.

christos