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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: pvfb: Absolute vs relative mouse tracking mystery
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 10:45:17 -0700
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On 05/10/2010 07:41 AM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, that gives me something to start with.

    J