Bug#442853: xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse: cursor does move :)

[Brice Goglin]

Joerg Platte wrote:
> Hi,
>
> since nobody else wanted to fix the driver I had to do it by myself. With the
> attached patch applied the mouse is moving again. It turned out that the
> curent x-server does no longer call the conversion_proc function to convert
> the values provided by the vmmouse (values between 0 and 0xffff) to the
> actual screen dimensions. Hence, I ripped relevant parts out of
> VMMouseConvertProc and used them to do the conversation just before passing
> the coordinates to X. Maybe there are better ways to do this but this seems
> to work. The problem has already been discusse for the wacom driver here
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/xorg/2007-February/022126.html
>
> regards,
> Jörg
>
> PS: Brice, please apply this patch to the vmmouse driver, since it makes the
> driver usable even if it might not be the best solution.
>

I'd like to get upstream's opinion first (I pretty much know nothing
about this code). Did you talk to anybody, for instance Philip Langdale
or Daniel Stone?

Brice

[Joerg Platte]

[Joerg Platte]

Am Mittwoch, 5. Dezember 2007 schrieb Brice Goglin:
Hi Brice,

> > PS: Brice, please apply this patch to the vmmouse driver, since it makes
> > the driver usable even if it might not be the best solution.
>
> I'd like to get upstream's opinion first (I pretty much know nothing
> about this code). Did you talk to anybody, for instance Philip Langdale
> or Daniel Stone?

No, I wrote this patch a couple of minutes before sending the mail. I'll
contact them today.

regards,
Jörg