On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:29:12PM -0700, David Mohr wrote: > I'm part of the minory who currently uses a Zaphod style dual monitor > setup with separate X screens for every monitor. When I recently > upgraded from 7.4 to 7.5, some utilites which I adopted[1] which > manipulate the mouse cursor started malfunctioning. My two X screens > are setup to be "apart" so that the mouse does not pass between them, > and I use my utilities to move the mouse between the two screens. But > with 7.5 every now and then a condition is triggered where the mouse > cursor will just continually jump from screen to screen, keeping the X > server at 100% CPU. I cannot even shut it down using > CTRL-ALT-Backspace. > > I've noticed comments in other threads on this mailing list that > Zaphod mode is not really supported any more (for completeness' sake, > I'm using the binary Nvidia drivers). So my question is, is there > value in trying to track down the bug in Xorg which causes the mouse > to jump back and forth?
yes. I've seen this myself and I have not yet identified the issue. it's a server bug and unrelated to the binary driver. If you can help track this issue down, it would be much appreciated. Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
