Hi!

It worked! Thanks!

Now if that could also stop xscreensaver from going all bonkers when it
starts, it would be perfect. :)

Gilles.

Joseph J. VLcek wrote:
> Gilles Gravier wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Since I've updated to b122, every now and then, mouse jumps around,
>> mostly to top left of screen. Need to click to get control of it again.
>> Very disturbing.
>>
>> Also, Firefox goes hangs quite often.
>>
>> Gilles.
>>   
> You are likely running in to bug:
>
> *Bug 9862* <http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=9862> -
> Xorg mouse cursor jumps to upper left corner
>
> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=9862
>
> Comment #10 of that bug has a description of the workaround.
>
>
> - - -
>
> Jürgen Keil <mailto:[email protected]> 2009-07-08 12:33:39
> UTC   Comment 10
>
> A better workaround - does not disable the MMX / SSE2 code in libpixman:
>
> cp -p /usr/X11/bin/i386/Xorg /usr/X11/bin/i386/Xorg.orig echo
> 'xf86SigioReadInput+9?w 770f 9090 9090' | mdb -w /usr/X11/bin/i386/Xorg
>
> Restart Xorg.
>
> This patch adds an "emms" instruction into the SIGIO / SIGPOLL signal
> handler
> path.  The emms instruction initializes fpu state, after the use of MMX.
>
>
>
>
>

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