[vbox-dev] 3.1.2 GA vboxmouse driver for x11 calculates erroneous mouse coordinates on Linux Lenny (64 bit) with server 1.4.2

[Michael Thayer]

Hello All,

On Dec 29, 2009, at 9:52 AM, Giovanni Toraldo wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Carsten Juttner <carjay at gmx.net>  
> wrote:
>> After installing the official ISO guest additions (3.1.2) and  
>> starting
>> gdm/kdm I noticed the mouse wasn't working correctly and seemed  
>> stuck in the
>> bottom right corner.
>
> http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5791
>
> Thank you, I updated the ticket with your patch.

Shame, I just noticed your mail now after I investigated the code  
myself!  I  didn't investigate as thoroughly as you did, but I guessed  
that that was where the problem was by comparing the old (pre-3.1.2)  
and new (vboxmouse_15-based) drivers, and I just copied and pasted the  
code from the old driver which also does the scaling manually.  My  
fault for wanting to be too clever in my earlier fix and make working  
code "nicer" by calling the official helper function...

Regards and thanks,

Michael
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