Re: X.org cursor only moves horizontally

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 09:31:03PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <497E29EC.9030501%gmail.com@localhost>, I'Khala  
> <nubisci%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> >Afternoon All,
> >I have an issue with my cursor with xorg on my i386 -current system. 
> >Whenever I  start xorg either using startx or xdm, the cursor only moves
> >horizontally.  I've seen  it on two of my workstations (Dell Optiplex
> >270 and Dell Precision Workstation 650) and a laptop (Dell C840).  The
> >Optiplex has and i810 graphics, while the Precision and the laptop uses
> >the nvidia driver.  Anyone seen similar behavior?  Thanks!!
> 
> Yes, it is a known problem but the patch posted here seems to be in the
> wrong place.

Is this "prior art" for the wrong place?

xsrc/external/mit/xf86-input-mouse/dist/src/mouse.c:1124:

    /* XXX should handle this OS dependency elsewhere. */
#ifndef __OS2ELF__
    /* OS/2 has a mouse handled by the OS - it cannot fail here */


Cheers,

Patrick