Changeset 9638ed8b

Timestamp:

03/06/2015 02:38:18 PM (8 years ago)

Author:

Pierre Labastie <pieere@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 7.10, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, ken/inkscape-core-mods, lazarus, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/python-mods, qt5new, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226

Children:

8b830d3, c94aadf

Parents:

e907ed05

Message:

fix detection of VMMouse under a Qemu environment in the vmmouse
Xorg driver

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@15613 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

Files:

• general.ent (modified) (2 diffs)
• introduction/welcome/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• x/installing/x7driver-vmmouse.xml (modified) (3 diffs)

general.ent

@@ -1 +1 @@
 <!-- $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ -->
 
-<!ENTITY day          "05">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day          "06">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY month        "03">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY year         "2015">
@@ -7 +7 @@
 <!ENTITY copyholder   "The BLFS Development Team">
 <!ENTITY version      "&year;-&month;-&day;">
-<!ENTITY releasedate  "March 5th, &year;">
+<!ENTITY releasedate  "March 6th, &year;">
 <!ENTITY pubdate      "&year;-&month;-&day;"> <!-- metadata req. by TLDP -->
 <!ENTITY blfs-version "svn">                  <!-- svn|[release #] -->

introduction/welcome/changelog.xml

@@ -44 +44 @@
 
 -->
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para>March 6th, 2015</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[pierre] - Fix vmmouse_detect to correctly detect a VMMouse
+          under Qemu.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
 
     <listitem>

x/installing/x7driver-vmmouse.xml

@@ -28 +28 @@
 
       <para>
-        The <application>Xorg VMMouse Driver</application> package contains the VMMouse input
-        driver for the Xorg X server. The VMMouse driver enables support for the special
-        VMMouse protocol that is provided by VMware virtual machines to give absolute
-        pointer positioning.
+        The <application>Xorg VMMouse Driver</application> package contains the
+        VMMouse input driver for the Xorg X server. The VMMouse driver enables
+        support for the special VMMouse protocol that is provided by VMware
+        virtual machines to give absolute pointer positioning. It can be used
+        with <application>Qemu</application>, too.
       </para>
 
@@ -96 +97 @@
 
       <para>
-        Install <application>Xorg VMMouse Driver</application> by running the following
-        commands:
+        Install <application>Xorg VMMouse Driver</application> by running the
+        following commands:
       </para>
 
 <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../xf86-input-vmmouse-&xorg-vmmouse-driver-version;-build_fix-1.patch &amp;&amp;
+sed -i -e '/__i386__/a iopl(3);' tools/vmmouse_detect.c &amp;&amp;
 ./configure $XORG_CONFIG               \
             --without-hal-fdi-dir      \
@@ -120 +122 @@
     <sect3>
       <title>Command Explanations</title>
+
+      <para>
+        <command>sed -i -e '/__i386__/a iopl(3);' ...</command>: This command
+        allows <command>vmmouse_detect</command> to detect the VMMouse protocol
+        in a <application>Qemu</application> virtual machine.
+      </para>
 
       <para>