From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 1 05:00:26 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40F85106564A for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2011 05:00:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F6528FC0C for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2011 05:00:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p8150QaV021204 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2011 05:00:26 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id p8150PJa021202; Thu, 1 Sep 2011 05:00:26 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 05:00:26 GMT Message-Id: <201109010500.p8150PJa021202@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org From: "deeptech71@gmail.com" Cc: Subject: Re: ports/137748: x11/xorg: "unprocessed" mouse click results in effective mouse being locked in an area X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "deeptech71@gmail.com" List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2011 05:00:26 -0000 The following reply was made to PR ports/137748; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "deeptech71@gmail.com" To: bug-followup@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: Re: ports/137748: x11/xorg: "unprocessed" mouse click results in effective mouse being locked in an area Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 06:27:04 +0200 Alright, the root cause of this "bug" was a semi-broken mouse. The mouse had been physically beaten a lot, and as a result, it had a button (a so-called "universal forward button", btw) constantly pressed (ie., without the need to press the button by hand). X does not act very well with such a mouse. In other words, press-and-hold the right mouse button (or some other fancy mouse button you might have), then try to work with the mouse in X, and see what happens. Also try this on some other operating systems with X. On a side note, Windows XP works well with such a mouse: there is some (hard to describe) mouse click instability right after booting, but that goes away after a few clicks. Maybe some minor workarounds could be added to X to allow such mice to work better, but without breaking other things. This will have to be discussed with the X people. If the FreeBSD maintainers are not responsible for such changes, then: This PR can be closed. I'll also try to get all other similar bug reports (for GNU/Linux systems) out there closed.