Bug#503459: xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse: activating vmmouse lets X server die on startup

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

reassign 503459 xserver-xorg-core 2:1.4.2-7
tag 503459 patch pending
kthxbye

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 19:20:57 +0100, Peter Marschall wrote:

> After finding out how to build xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse 
> with this patch and testing the patched driver, I can now confirm
> your suspicion: removing the FlushButtons() call in 
> VMMouseDeviceControl() fixes the bug.
> 
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 13:23:37 +0000, Gerard Mensoif wrote:

> I confirm that commenting FlushButtons in VMMouseDeviceControl solves
> the problem for me.
> 
Thanks for testing.  It turns out Fedora seems to have patched the
X server to not segfault in this case; I'll steal their patch[1], which
will hopefully fix this.

Cheers,
Julien

[1] http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/xorg-x11-server/F-9/xserver-1.5.0-more-sanity-checks.patch?revision=1.1&view=markup