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Re: [Xen-devel] pvfb: Absolute vs relative mouse tracking mystery

To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] pvfb: Absolute vs relative mouse tracking mystery
From: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 15:41:13 +0100
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On Fri, 7 May 2010, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> On one of my host machines, in PV guests using pvfb I get proper
> absolute mouse tracking.
> 
> On another host machine, I get relative tracking in pvfb-using guests.
> 
> Both are using identical versions of Fedora 12, identical domain
> configs, and toolstacks and kernels built from the same source.  The log
> files of the X servers are more or less identical.
> 
> Help?  Any clues?
> 

relative vs absolute depends on a node on xenstore called
"request-abs-pointer" that defaults to 0 and has to be written by the
guest.


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