Bug#444143: XF86MiscGetMouseSettings fails in xpilot after upgrade to xorg 7.3
Ben Armstrong wrote:
> Package: libxxf86misc1
> Version: 1:1.0.1-2
> Severity: normal
>
> After upgrading to xorg 7.3, xpilot-ng-x11 dies as soon as I click the mouse
> with the following error:
>
> X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
> Major opcode of failed request: 137 (XFree86-Misc)
> Minor opcode of failed request: 3 (XF86MiscGetMouseSettings)
> Value in failed request: 0x260017b
> Serial number of failed request: 513231
> Current serial number in output stream: 513231
>
> This happened with two different implementations of xpilot, one in Debian and
> one not (but from a common ancestor, so it also uses XFree86-Misc to get mouse
> settings) and on two different systems that had been upgraded to xorg 7.3,
> one with the proprietary nvidia driver and the other with i810.
>
> If I start xpilot inside a VNC session which lacks the XFree86-Misc extension,
> xpilot does not die when I click the mouse (of course, the graphics performance
> plunges, so this isn't really a workaround -- but it confirms where the
> problem is happening.)
>
Hi Ben,
Does this problem still occurs with xserver-xorg-core 1.4.1 from unstable?
It contains lots of input-related fixes that could help here.
Brice
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