oddity with update to 7.3 and the mouse

[Thomas Mueller]

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:40:21 -0400, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
> 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.

Refer to http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12145.
I applied this patch 
  http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/driver/xf86-input-mouse.git;a=commitdiff;h=f42ea3027c13046dfa7a603737b476fbf2833764
to xf86-input-mouse and my dual-head setup is back to normal wrt the
mouse problem.

-- 
Thomas Mueller