Re: PR/47935 CVS commit: pkgsrc/x11/xf86-video-ati6

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/47935; it has been noted by GNATS.

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Subject: Re: PR/47935 CVS commit: pkgsrc/x11/xf86-video-ati6
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 12:17:18 -0400

 On Aug 18,  4:00pm, kuehro%gmx.de@localhost ("Kai-Uwe Eckhardt") wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: PR/47935 CVS commit: pkgsrc/x11/xf86-video-ati6
 
 | The following reply was made to PR pkg/47935; it has been noted by GNATS.
 | 
 | From: "Kai-Uwe Eckhardt" <kuehro%gmx.de@localhost>
 | To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 | Cc: 
 | Subject: Re: PR/47935 CVS commit: pkgsrc/x11/xf86-video-ati6
 | Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 17:50:00 +0200 (CEST)
 | 
 |  Hi, 
 |  
 |  on 6.99.23 i386 with a 9250 RV280 card (AGP) the Xserver runs and
 |  I can start xterm from .xinitrc but the mouse moves only in
 |  horizontal direction (PS2). After reinstalling the system with native
 |  Xorg everything works. The same problem was reported in this mail:
 |  http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2013/06/27/msg018240.html
 |  
 |  I didn't have time to analyse the problem and it might be unrelated
 |  to xf86-video-ati6, but for me modular xorg was not usable with
 
 This happens when the mouse code does not send an ioctl to change
 to the new protocol (that uses a time_t that is 64 bits), so the xserver
 gets confused about the mouse struct format it receives.
 
 christos