oddity with update to 7.3 and the mouse

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:17:45 +0200
> From: Thomas Mueller <tmueller at sysgo.com>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-x11 at freebsd.org
> 
> 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.

Thanks very much!

I'll apply this today and test tomorrow as I am not in the same location
as the nVidia system today. It will be very nice to have it working
again as it is my primary desktop.

I will submit this in a PR in hopes that the port can be updated.
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