Bug#442853: xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse: cursor does move :)

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Joerg Platte wrote:
> Hi,
>
> since nobody else wanted to fix the driver I had to do it by myself. With the 
> attached patch applied the mouse is moving again. It turned out that the 
> curent x-server does no longer call the conversion_proc function to convert 
> the values provided by the vmmouse (values between 0 and 0xffff) to the 
> actual screen dimensions. Hence, I ripped relevant parts out of 
> VMMouseConvertProc and used them to do the conversation just before passing 
> the coordinates to X. Maybe there are better ways to do this but this seems 
> to work. The problem has already been discusse for the wacom driver here 
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/xorg/2007-February/022126.html
>
> regards,
> Jörg
>
> PS: Brice, please apply this patch to the vmmouse driver, since it makes the 
> driver usable even if it might not be the best solution.
>   

I'd like to get upstream's opinion first (I pretty much know nothing
about this code). Did you talk to anybody, for instance Philip Langdale
or Daniel Stone?

Brice