Mouse problems with ALT+TAB on SDL OpenGL non-fullscreen game

[Nerius Landys]

I'd like to add that I am not getting this problem on Linux builds.  It's
only on FreeBSD.  That's why I suspected moused.
[End of message.]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Nerius Landys <nlandys at gmail.com> wrote:

> Howdy.  I am running a video game that is a derivative of quake3.  The
> exact game is called Urban Terror.  I'm compiling this game against SDL.
> This enables me to use ALT+TAB to switch between the game and other desktop
> apps.  I have tried compiling from the ports version (games/iourbanterror)
> and the plain vanilla non-ports version, and I am getting a problem in both
> cases.
>
> When I run the game in non-fullscreen mode and after I use ALT+TAB to
> switch to another app and then back to the game, the mouse starts acting
> funny.  It's as if the mouse all of a sudden is limited by some imaginary
> rectangular region.  The expected behavior is that if I move the mouse to
> the left side, for example, the player will rotate to the left
> continuously.  The behavior that I am getting is that once the mouse is
> moved to the left (or right) by a certain amount, any further movement in
> that direction has no effect.  Like I'm hitting a wall or something.
>
> This problem does not happen if I run the game in fullscreen mode.  It's
> only on non-fullscreen (windowed) mode, and only after I ALT+TAB away from
> and back to the game.  Any ideas what might be causing this?  Can it be
> related to moused?  Here is my xorg.conf:
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
>         Identifier     "X.org Configured"
>         Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
>         InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
>         InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Files"
>         RgbPath      "/usr/local/share/X11/rgb"
>         ModulePath   "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules"
>         FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
>         FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
>         FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF"
>         FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
>         FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
>         FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Module"
>         Load  "extmod"
>         Load  "record"
>         Load  "dbe"
>         Load  "glx"
>         #Load  "GLcore"
>         Load  "xtrap"
>         #Load  "dri"
>         Load  "freetype"
>         Load  "type1"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Keyboard0"
>         Driver      "kbd"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Mouse0"
>         Driver      "mouse"
>         Option      "Protocol" "auto"
>         Option      "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
>         Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
>         #DisplaySize      470   300     # mm
>         Identifier   "Monitor0"
>         VendorName   "SAM"
>         ModelName    "SyncMaster"
>  ### Comment all HorizSync and VertRefresh values to use DDC:
>         #HorizSync    30.0 - 81.0
>         #VertRefresh  56.0 - 75.0
>         Option      "DPMS"
> EndSection
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier  "Card0"
>         Driver      "nvidia"
>         VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
>         BoardName   "NV35GL [Quadro FX 3000]"
>         BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
>         Option      "NoLogo" "true"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
>         Identifier "Screen0"
>         Device     "Card0"
>         Monitor    "Monitor0"
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Viewport   0 0
>                 Depth     1
>         EndSubSection
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Viewport   0 0
>                 Depth     4
>         EndSubSection
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Viewport   0 0
>                 Depth     8
>         EndSubSection
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Viewport   0 0
>                 Depth     15
>         EndSubSection
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Viewport   0 0
>                 Depth     16
>         EndSubSection
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Viewport   0 0
>                 Depth     24
>         EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
>
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