[Qemu-devel] Mouse Question

[Qemu-devel] Mouse Question

[Bruce Ashfield]

Hi all, 

I've been lurking on the list for quite a few months, and I haven't seen
anyone describing problems like I've been seeing using Win2K as a guest,
which leads me to believe it's something with my setup. I've tried
everything I can think of, so any suggestions are appreciated.

The problem I'm seeing is that even though the mouse shows up as "working"
in the device manager properties, that isn't what I see. When windows first
starts up, I do see the mouse cursor, but as soon as I go into keyboard
grab and interact with windows the cursor disappears to never be seen
again. If I move the mouse quickly I see some focus flashing of windows and
clicking the right mouse button brings up the menu in the bottom right
corner of the screen. But that's it, I can't interact with the menu, the
windows, nothing at all.

So that's the problem, here are my details:

  - qemu: running qemu cvs update from Wednesday June 9th.
  - distro: debian testing/unstable packages
  - xfree: XFree86 version: 4.3.0.1
  - guest os: Win2K
  - gpm: no gpm (turned it off incase it was the problem)
  - sdl: version 1.2.7
  - launch: qemu -pci -cirrusvga -m 512 -hda win2k.img -n ./qemu-ifup

The cirrusvga and pci changes are working very nicely, great features, all
the hard work is most appreciated.

Is anyone else seeing symptoms like mine ? Or has anyone seen them in the
past ? I'm out of good ideas.

Cheers,

Bruce Ashfield


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Re: [Qemu-devel] Mouse Question

[Antony T Curtis]

On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 05:12, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> Hi all, 
> 
> I've been lurking on the list for quite a few months, and I haven't seen
> anyone describing problems like I've been seeing using Win2K as a guest,
> which leads me to believe it's something with my setup. I've tried
> everything I can think of, so any suggestions are appreciated.
> 
> The problem I'm seeing is that even though the mouse shows up as "working"
> in the device manager properties, that isn't what I see. When windows first
> starts up, I do see the mouse cursor, but as soon as I go into keyboard
> grab and interact with windows the cursor disappears to never be seen
> again. If I move the mouse quickly I see some focus flashing of windows and
> clicking the right mouse button brings up the menu in the bottom right
> corner of the screen. But that's it, I can't interact with the menu, the
> windows, nothing at all.

I have had to do something like

SDL_MOUSE_RELATIVE=0
export SDL_MOUSE_RELATIVE

before I start qemu.

<snip>

-- 
Antony T Curtis <antony.t.curtis@ntlworld.com>

Re: [Qemu-devel] Mouse Question

[Bruce Ashfield]

That did the trick. Many thanks, everything is working quite nicely now.

Bruce

In message: Re: [Qemu-devel] Mouse Question on June 09 Antony T Curtis
wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 05:12, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> > Hi all, 
> > 
> > I've been lurking on the list for quite a few months, and I haven't seen
> > anyone describing problems like I've been seeing using Win2K as a guest,
> > which leads me to believe it's something with my setup. I've tried
> > everything I can think of, so any suggestions are appreciated.
> > 
> > The problem I'm seeing is that even though the mouse shows up as "working"
> > in the device manager properties, that isn't what I see. When windows first
> > starts up, I do see the mouse cursor, but as soon as I go into keyboard
> > grab and interact with windows the cursor disappears to never be seen
> > again. If I move the mouse quickly I see some focus flashing of windows and
> > clicking the right mouse button brings up the menu in the bottom right
> > corner of the screen. But that's it, I can't interact with the menu, the
> > windows, nothing at all.
> 
> I have had to do something like
> 
> SDL_MOUSE_RELATIVE=0
> export SDL_MOUSE_RELATIVE
> 
> before I start qemu.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> -- 
> Antony T Curtis <antony.t.curtis@ntlworld.com>
> 
> 
> 
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Bruce Ashfield         | "Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer, for
ashfield@computer.org  |  chaos and madness await thee at its end."
bruce@zedd.org         |       - unknown