Re: Re: mouse cursor problems

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, David Hammerton wrote:

> In theory it is possible with DGA - however that's a huge piece of crap
> that I wouldn't touch with a 200 meter pole.
> 
> Quite some time ago (2002 I think) I talked to several of the XFree86
> developers (now they are freedesktop.org developers) about it, and they
> do agree that an extension is needed - however they believe that it is
> not worth creating an extension just for this purpose - and think it
> wouldbe better to create an X extension that provides all sorts of 
> new input functionality.
> 
> Of course, I haven't looked into this since then (and then it was only
> a cursory look), so something may be available of which I am not aware.

Now I am totally confused.  The unnecessary warping is IMO easy to fix in 
the present context.  Several known games require this fix to function.  
You say you have been aware of this problem for years.  You (TG) are not 
actively pursuing the XFree route.  What are you (TG) waiting for then? 

Regards,

Nadav Frum
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