Mouse events directed to one window in Xorg 1.7.x

Hi there,
There has been much talk about Xorg 1.7.x, and this one is another tale [Searched the forum 1st and googled but did not find a similar problem, so if mistaken, sorry ] I have and Dell XPS m1210 and using KDE4 (KDEMod) on Arch64. On xorg 1.7.x (all the version from the repos) after a while the mouse begins to behave strangely: I can not select any window with the mouse or touchpad it keeps sending the events (clicks for instance) to the active window. (even if I click out of the window)! And when change the window using alt+tab, the same thing happens but for the new active window.
This is my Xorg.conf. I use hotplugging:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

AndyRTR wrote:When you want to use packages from testing repo you need to -Syu ALL packages. There are also new keyboard and evdev drivers and more. You should read around how to deal with upgrading Arch and how to use the testing repo. It's not recommended and expected to work when you only pick a few packages.
Ok. System upgraded from testing repo. Keyboard and mouse are works. But strange area on screen is still there. It's a strange framebuffer or smth same I think.
Here is screenshot: http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/306/ … 4x600s.png
Area with "OPENBOX" text is it. There are no "EE" in Xorg.0.log
Last edited by darklion (2009-10-29 11:17:27)

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