On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 01:20:01AM +0930, Matthew Thyer wrote: >I have confirmed that the problem occurs if I just do: > > xsetpointer Joystick > sleep 1 > xsetpointer pointer > >So M.A.M.E. is unrelated to the problem as Bruce Evans would suggest. > >So the problem appears to be with XFree86 not closing the joystick >device after I've used it as a pointer with 'xsetpointer'.
The problem is in the joystick driver (or are silo overflows acceptable while you actually want to use the joystick?). >I am sure I am using xsetpointer correctly as I can use my PC joystick >as a pointing device (once I calibrate it). > >I was just using xsetpointer with an incorrectly calibrated joystick >so it moved the pointer to the top left corner of the screen in my >xmame.sh shell script (I'd like to know how to do this another way). A better way would be a small X client that uses XWarpPointer(3). David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
