ports/137748: x11/xorg: "unprocessed" mouse click results in effective mouse being locked in an area

[deeptech71 at gmail.com]

The following reply was made to PR ports/137748; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "deeptech71 at gmail.com" <deeptech71 at gmail.com>
To: bug-followup at 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.