oddity with update to 7.3 and the mouse

[Adam K Kirchhoff]

This is what nvidia has to say:

"Mouse problem with X.org 7.3 and multiple X screens or Xinerama"

"The version of xf86-input-mouse shipped with X.org 7.3 contains a bug
that confines the pointer to one of the screens. You can avoid this
problem by using the xf86-input-evdev driver instead."

That's from:

http://nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=72490

That's on the nvnews linux forum.  Since I believe evdev is linux
specific, that clearly won't work for FreeBSD users.

On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 02:12 -0400, Zane C.B. wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 22:35:13 -0700
> "Kevin Oberman" <oberman at es.net> wrote:
> 
> > > Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:58:30 -0400
> > > From: "Zane C.B." <v.velox at vvelox.net>
> > > Sender: owner-freebsd-x11 at freebsd.org
> > > 
> > > I've run into a most odd issue. I have two screen setup in
> > > non-xinerama mode and if I move the mouse over to the new screen,
> > > it gets setup there and I can't move it back.
> > > 
> > > Section "ServerLayout"
> > >         Identifier     "X.org Configured"
> > >         Screen      0  "Screen0" LeftOf "Screen1"
> > >         Screen      1  "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
> > >         InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
> > >         InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> > > EndSection
> > > 
> > > Also on  side note, I use the nvidia driver as well.
> > 
> > You make number 4 to report this, all with nVidia cards. For the
> > record, which nVidia card so you have? 
> 
> nvidia0: <GeForce 7300 LE> mem
> 0xfa000000-0xfaffffff,0xd0000000-0xdfffffff,0xfb000000-0xfbffffff irq
> 16 at device 0.0 on pci3
>  
> > No word on when to expect a new nVidia driver, but I sure hope it is
> > soon and that it fixes this weirdness.
> 
> I am hoping so too. I am curious if it is actually the nVidia driver
> causing this. It seems odd it would affect this.
>  
> > Also, your "ServerLayout" specifies the location of the screens
> > relative to each other, but with no fixed reference. I guess that
> > this works, but every ServerLayout I have seen places one screen
> > (Screen0) at 0 0 and sets other screens relative to that. (Then,
> > again, I have not seen all that many config files, so I may be
> > simply clueless.) -- 
> 
> I will try that later, but I still find it rather odd. That has
> worked since XFree86 4.3 or 4.4. I forget exactly when I went dual
> screen. Going to poke the Xorg list tomorrow as well.
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