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kmiernik

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From: Poland

Registered: 2009-10-20

Posts: 48

Dosbox mouse capture [Solved]

I haven't been using dosbox in a while, but it seems that some recent upgrade (certainly within last month) made all my games, on two different machines, unable to capture mouse (ctrl+f10 doesn't work either). I have tried to downgrade some of the packages (like xorg-xinput, libinput), but the list of potential candidates is couple dozen long. Any clue which direction I should look? Anyone noticing the same issue?

Last edited by kmiernik (2018-06-01 10:01:18)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 23,210

Re: Dosbox mouse capture [Solved]

Which general environment? Most logical connection would be that you run on Wayland and that the corresponding XWayland implementation that got updated with xorg-server 1.20 doesn't implement the mouse capture as expected.

HantaHanta

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Registered: 2018-05-21

Posts: 4

Re: Dosbox mouse capture [Solved]

I've also been having this issue with dosbox. I can get the mouse to work if I make dosbox fullscreen, but then theres a constant cursor flickering in the middle of the screen. I had fixed the issue by downgrading my packages to 5/16/2018.

[2018-05-21 22:33] [ALPM] downgraded xdg-utils (1.1.3-1 -> 1.1.2-2)
[2018-05-21 22:33] [ALPM] downgraded libdrm (2.4.92-1 -> 2.4.91-3)
[2018-05-21 22:33] [ALPM] downgraded libinput (1.10.7-1 -> 1.10.6-1)
[2018-05-21 22:33] [ALPM] downgraded wayland (1.15.0-1 -> 1.14.0-1)
[2018-05-21 22:33] [ALPM] downgraded mesa (18.0.3-4 -> 18.0.3-1)
[2018-05-21 22:33] [ALPM] downgraded ndctl (60.2-1 -> 60.1-1)
[2018-05-21 22:33] [ALPM] downgraded wayland-protocols (1.14-1 -> 1.13-1)
[2018-05-21 22:33] [ALPM] downgraded xorg-server-common (1.20.0-2 -> 1.19.6+13+gd0d1a694f-2)
[2018-05-21 22:33] [ALPM] downgraded xorg-server (1.20.0-2 -> 1.19.6+13+gd0d1a694f-2)

So I think it has to be one of these packages causing the issue for me, but I'm not sure exactly which.

kmiernik

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From: Poland

Registered: 2009-10-20

Posts: 48

Re: Dosbox mouse capture [Solved]

Which general environment? Most logical connection would be that you run on Wayland and that the corresponding XWayland implementation that got updated with xorg-server 1.20 doesn't implement the mouse capture as expected.

I tested the following environments: lxde, lxqt, gnome-xorg, gnome-wayland. All the same, so it is not connected to the Wayland directly.

I've also been having this issue with dosbox. I can get the mouse to work if I make dosbox fullscreen, but then theres a constant cursor flickering in the middle of the screen. I had fixed the issue by downgrading my packages to 5/16/2018.
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So I think it has to be one of these packages causing the issue for me, but I'm not sure exactly which.

Thanks, I confirm that in the full screen mode, the mouse works. I will try to downgrade packages from your list and figure out which one is causing the trouble.

kmiernik

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From: Poland

Registered: 2009-10-20

Posts: 48

Re: Dosbox mouse capture [Solved]

The troublesome package is the xorg-server. After downgrade to 1.19.6+13+gd0d1a694f-2, mouse is being captured in the window mode, and there is no flickering in either mode. This downgrade also requires removal of xf86-video-intel. Should this be reported as a bug in dosbox or rather xorg-server?

V1del

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Re: Dosbox mouse capture [Solved]

Hard to say, if this is just in dosbox it might be an issue with how dosbox implements that, or it's a unexpected regression in xorg-server. I'd probably initially go for xorg to be at fault unless it is shown that dosbox uses wrong/outdated API

phunni

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From: Bristol, UK

Registered: 2003-08-13

Posts: 787

Re: Dosbox mouse capture [Solved]

I also have this problem.  Are we expecting it to get fixed in a future version of xorg-server?

Lone_Wolf

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Re: Dosbox mouse capture [Solved]

Are we expecting it to get fixed in a future version of xorg-server?

Not until someone troubleshoots the issue further*.

Some comments :

try running xorg 1.20 with modesetting (remove any xf86-video-* packages)

What type of mouse is this happening with : usb , ps2 , touchpad ?

If dosbox is started on it's own x-server, does this also happen ?

* atm all we know is that dosbox + xorg server 1.20 mouse capturing is not working, while same dosbox + xorg-server 1.19 works

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carado

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Registered: 2018-08-07

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Re: Dosbox mouse capture [Solved]

Hi,
I don't know how much this helps, but I'm having the same problem on Void Linux with dosbox and xorg-server 1.20, and setting

autolock=false

in ~/.dosbox/dosbox-0.74.conf circumvents the problem for me.

allencch

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Registered: 2011-03-25

Posts: 118

Re: Dosbox mouse capture [Solved]

I just found that I face the same issue. Running the game that requires mouse will crash immediately. My only solution is to use the DOSBox for Windows, extract, and run with Wine.

wine ./DOSBox.exe -conf game.conf

Scritch

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Registered: 2018-11-24

Posts: 1

Re: Dosbox mouse capture [Solved]

Setting

autolock=false

worked for me also.

Last edited by Scritch (2018-11-24 19:00:12)

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Re: Dosbox mouse capture [Solved]

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