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vjoe

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From: Milton Keynes

Registered: 2008-06-14

Posts: 72

Mouse pointer sticking to corners

Hello,

In some games the mouse sticks to a corner of the screen and every time that I try to move it, it moves back to the corner, making it impossible to play the game.

My video card is a Nvidia 9500m GS. This happens in games like UT2004, Urban Terror or Astromenace.

Is it a driver problem?

Help please.

vjoe

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From: Milton Keynes

Registered: 2008-06-14

Posts: 72

Re: Mouse pointer sticking to corners

Anyone?

ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 7,356

Re: Mouse pointer sticking to corners

Some things to check:-
Running compiz?
Dual-screen?

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vjoe

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From: Milton Keynes

Registered: 2008-06-14

Posts: 72

Re: Mouse pointer sticking to corners

Some people in the IRC channel helped me finding this. Doing

$ export SDL_VIDEO_X11_DGAMOUSE=0

fixes the problem. How can I ut that setting permanent?

JT

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Registered: 2009-01-16

Posts: 21

Re: Mouse pointer sticking to corners

Well, looking at that same link ...

However, a permanent solution that works for all games, is to add the following to the Modules section of your xorg.conf file:

# Load "extmod" but omit DGA extension
SubSection "extmod"
    Option "omit xfree86-dga"
EndSubSection

Try editing the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.

vjoe

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From: Milton Keynes

Registered: 2008-06-14

Posts: 72

Re: Mouse pointer sticking to corners

That doesn't do it. That's why I asked.

toad

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From: if only I knew

Registered: 2008-12-22

Posts: 1,775

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Re: Mouse pointer sticking to corners

Greetings to Manchester

I'd try and stick it in /etc/rc.local

HTH

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vjoe

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From: Milton Keynes

Registered: 2008-06-14

Posts: 72

Re: Mouse pointer sticking to corners

Thank you.

Unfortunately, that didn't solve the problem.

hBd

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From: Romania - Cluj Napoca

Registered: 2008-06-08

Posts: 241

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Re: Mouse pointer sticking to corners

Hello,

In some games the mouse sticks to a corner of the screen and every time that I try to move it, it moves back to the corner, making it impossible to play the game.

My video card is a Nvidia 9500m GS. This happens in games like UT2004, Urban Terror or Astromenace.

Is it a driver problem?

Help please.

Thi s happen's to me at Urban Terror to, and i try searching in google, but nothing useful found
can anyone help me ?

Mammut

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Registered: 2009-12-11

Posts: 23

Re: Mouse pointer sticking to corners

I had the same problem in ut2004.

It was a mouse problem caused by evdev driver.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Evdev

I edit my xorg.conf so my mouse dont use it and I dont load evdev module anymore.

and I added to the:  Section "ServerFlags"
                                    Option "AllowEmptyInput" "False"

Last edited by Mammut (2010-01-12 11:14:13)