[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#520971: nvidia-glx-legacy-96xx: Click and drag misbehavior

[Andreas Beckmann]

On Tuesday, 24. March 2009 02:37:37 The Eclectic One wrote:
> Package: nvidia-glx-legacy-96xx
> Version: 96.43.07-2
>
> This problem is repeatable with 2 applications: kbarcode and korganizer.
> Both applications work in the predictable way on another X server (neomagic
> driver on a Thinkpad 600E).  The problem also manifests itself when
> attempting to copy text from kterms, one mouse click moving
> forward/backward in a line invariably selects the whole line.
>
> On the nvidia accelerated server left mouse button click and drag has the
> same effect as a left mouse button double click.  Both applications pop
> up a window in the latter case, and also (incorrectly) when doing a click
> and drag, making the click and drag operation impossible.  This operation
> should resize fields in both applications.
>
> To eliminate the possibility of real spurious events, xev confirms that the
> correct events (not duplicated) are sent when clicking and dragging on
> the xev window.  If the events are somehow doubled internally, it doesn't
> show in the xev window.

New legacy nvidia driver packages 96.43.18-1 were just uploaded to unstable. 
Please test them together with current kernel, Xorg and KDE and report 
whether the problem is still reproducible.

Thanks

Andreas