Re: port-sparc/45314: Spurious mouse button events under X11 on a SparcStation 2

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-sparc/45314; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: port-sparc/45314: Spurious mouse button events under X11 on a
 SparcStation 2
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 05:35:11 +0000

 On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 04:10:07PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
  >  | Quickly moving the mouse in wide cycles under X11 (without
  >  | actually pressing one of the mouse buttons) seems to generate
  >  | spurious mouse button events; this is quite annoying because it
  >  | sometimes leads to unwanted copy-and-pasting (which is
  >  | especially annoying with xterm windows, even more so if you are
  >  | logged in as root...). The spurious mouse button events seem to
  >  | happen more often if the mouse cursor crosses window borders
  >  | during the movement (causing twm to redraw the window border).
  >  
  >  I think this is caused by the versioned ioctls for the mouse that were
  >  necessary for the 64 bit time syscalls.
 
 How? And is this still likely to be an issue? (It's been so long, all
 I remember is the existence of the problem that made the mouse move
 only in squares on amd64, not what caused it or what the solution was)
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost