Mouse problem with FC7 uptodate, Windows XP virt machine, rdesktop connection.

[NoisilySilent]

Hi,

I used to run Windows XP inside a XEN virtual machine on FC6.

Everything was perfect.

To connect to the Windows XP virtual machine, I used to run rdesktop.

Today I installed FC7 from scratch and tried to use my Windows XP virtual
machine and I noticed a very strange behaviour:

All of this stuff runs on a Dell Latitude D620 laptop.

This laptop offers a touchpad, a trackpoint and of course USB ports on which
I connect a 3 button wheel mice.

FC7 is up to date and all packages are at last date version, including XEN.

Now when I connect to the Windows XP virtual machine via rdesktop, after a
few minutes the trackpoint and the mouse get weird: when using either the
trackpoint or the mouse moving rightwards, the pointer gets "stuck" on the
left border of the screen whereas I can still use the touchpad and things
don't get messed up.

However, when using FC7 without XEN, I don't encounter this trouble.

Have you ever heard of such a problem?

Cheers

[Eduardo Habkost]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 06:16:49PM +0200, NoisilySilent wrote:
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> Now when I connect to the Windows XP virtual machine via rdesktop, after a
> few minutes the trackpoint and the mouse get weird: when using either the
> trackpoint or the mouse moving rightwards, the pointer gets "stuck" on the
> left border of the screen whereas I can still use the touchpad and things
> don't get messed up.
>
> However, when using FC7 without XEN, I don't encounter this trouble.
>
> Have you ever heard of such a problem?

I had this weird cursor behaviour last week, on Fedora 7. I was running
a Xen kernel, also (2.6.20-2931, probably; but it could be a different
version).

If I recall correctly, I didn't have any guest running at the time. It
happened when I started an Eclipse-based application[1]. The cursor
could be moved to the right, but only if I moved the mouse very slowly.

On my case, it was a desktop machine, so I didn't have a touchpad,
just an USB mouse.

However, I didn't manage to reproduce the problem today. Is it easily
reproducible, on your case?

[1] It was a IDE from QNX I had just installed for testing.