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[fastfish <fastfish@xxxxxxxxx>]

Same prob here.  I have nvidia-current installed and have the same
prob.  What did you do exactly to fix?

-bazooka

On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 7:32 AM, Sebastian Johansson
<johansson.seb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Affects me to. Just upgraded to 10.04 and had to replace my Nvidia
> binary drivers with the on supplied by the package nvidia-current.
>
> I use a dual monitor configuration on a 9500 gt. My secondary screen is
> LeftOf my primary screen. I need to run Xinerama, otherwise Xmonad wont
> know that there are more than one screen...
>
> Now, as I move the mouse onto my secondary screen, the pointer freaks
> out. I can then move it back to my primary screen if I want to. Every
> thing else seems to work just fine.
>
> ** Attachment added: "xorg.conf"
>   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/46976895/xorg.conf
>
> --
> Mouse movement corrupted with Xinerama enabled
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/563100
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>
> Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: xorg
>
> The mouse is unusable on a second monitor using the nvidia drivers and Xinerama (Installed: 2:1.1-2).  Upon moving to the second screen, the mouse cursor movement is erratic (although it does respond vaguely to physical mouse movement).
>
> The problem was introduced with lucid (and continues in beta 2).  The mouse works as expected on the second screen in both intrepid and karmic with exact same xorg.conf and nvidia drivers.
>
> The problem appears even with only the minimal settings in xorg.conf to enable dual monitors.  The problem appears whether the second monitor is rotated or not rotated.  The problem does not occur with nvidia's TwinView implementation.
>
> The mouse and all other aspects of X work fine in lucid *without* Xinerama enabled.  Enabling Xinerama causes no problems except this one.  The bug is not present in Debian unstable.
>
> The new bug of course forces one to use separate X servers when wishing to rotate only one monitor in a set -- a limitation that was not present in prior releases of Ubuntu or other distributions.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
> Package: xorg 1:7.5+5ubuntu1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-20.30-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
> Uname: Linux 2.6.32-20-generic x86_64
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Wed Apr 14 09:15:52 2010
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100406)
> MachineType: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. EP45-UD3P
> ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-20-generic root=/dev/mapper/vg0-root ro
> ProcEnviron:
>  PATH=(custom, no user)
>  LANG=en_US.utf8
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: xorg
> Symptom: display
> Xrandr:
>  Error: command ['xrandr', '--verbose'] failed with exit code 1: Xlib:  extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0.1".
>  RandR extension missing
> dmi.bios.date: 04/16/2009
> dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
> dmi.bios.version: F9
> dmi.board.name: EP45-UD3P
> dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
> dmi.board.version: x.x
> dmi.chassis.type: 3
> dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
> dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrF9:bd04/16/2009:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnEP45-UD3P:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnEP45-UD3P:rvrx.x:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr:
> dmi.product.name: EP45-UD3P
> dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
> glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
> system:
>  distro:             Ubuntu
>  codename:           lucid
>  architecture:       x86_64
>  kernel:             2.6.32-20-generic
>
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