Re: XFree86 xsetpointer causes silo overflows (Was: Re: Fixed my MAMEd sio problem.)

1999-05-20 Thread David Dawes
On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 11:37:51PM +0930, Matthew Thyer wrote: The big problem is that the silo overflows continue after I have returned the pointer to the mouse (with xsetpointer pointer). This should close the joystick device shouldn't it ? No. I've had a look through some of the XInput code,

Re: XFree86 xsetpointer causes silo overflows (Was: Re: Fixed my MAMEd sio problem.)

1999-05-20 Thread Jean-Marc Zucconi
David Dawes writes: IMHO the problem is in the joystick driver and in your assumptions. By configuring the joystick in your Xserver config file, you're giving the server exclusive use of the device for the lifetime of the X server process. Implementing more agressive closing might

Re: XFree86 xsetpointer causes silo overflows (Was: Re: Fixed my MAMEd sio problem.)

1999-05-20 Thread David Dawes
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 07:23:49PM +0200, Jean-Marc Zucconi wrote: David Dawes writes: IMHO the problem is in the joystick driver and in your assumptions. By configuring the joystick in your Xserver config file, you're giving the server exclusive use of the device for the lifetime of the

Re: XFree86 xsetpointer causes silo overflows (Was: Re: Fixed my MAMEd sio problem.)

1999-05-19 Thread David Dawes
On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 01:20:01AM +0930, Matthew Thyer wrote: I have confirmed that the problem occurs if I just do: xsetpointer Joystick sleep 1 xsetpointer pointer So M.A.M.E. is unrelated to the problem as Bruce Evans would suggest. So the problem appears to be with XFree86 not

Re: XFree86 xsetpointer causes silo overflows (Was: Re: Fixed my MAMEd sio problem.)

1999-05-19 Thread Matthew Thyer
The big problem is that the silo overflows continue after I have returned the pointer to the mouse (with xsetpointer pointer). This should close the joystick device shouldn't it ? If it doesn't then there is a problem with either the X server or FreeBSD. Bruce has already indicated that there