On Fre, 2012-08-24 at 13:19 -0500, Theodore Kilgore wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Aug 2012, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > On Don, 2012-08-23 at 18:27 -0500, Theodore Kilgore wrote: > > > > > > As you can see, it is intended that the "panning" dimensions ought to > > > remain at 1920x1080 so that by moving the mouse here or there it is > > > possible to see any part of the desktop which is outside of the 800x600 > > > window, or, one might say, to be able to move the 800x600 "magnified" > > > window to any part of the 1920x1080 desktop. > > > > > > Several X versions ago, this used to work. But then it quit working. What > > > happens instead is that, if the script is run while the mouse cursor is > > > near the bottom right of the screen all is OK. One can move to the left > > > and or move up, and the 800x600 window follows the mouse. But once one > > > has > > > done that, the 800x600 window is frozen in place and cannot be moved back > > > downward, or back to the right. > > > > > > Experimentation has caused me to suspect that the problem is in the ATI > > > driver code somewhere, or in the radeon driver code. > > > > That's rather unlikely, as the video driver doesn't deal directly with > > mouse input at all but just sets the display viewport as requested by > > the X server. > > > > It sounds like this problem could be fixed by this xserver patch: > > http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/11524/ > > The two machines are, respectively, at home and at the office. The one at > home is the one on which this needs to be tested. Right now I am at work, > sitting in front of the other machine. > > I can certainly try the above-mentioned patch. Where am I supposed to get > the code which is to be patched, though? Should I use recent > distro-distributed code, or should I use code from a repository somewhere? > Please let me know. Also, assuming that this patch works, is this patch > something which is "coming soon"?
It's included in the xserver 1.13 release candidates. You can test it with one of those or xserver Git (git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/xserver). Otherwise you may need some preceding patches as well. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.amd.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
