[Metisse] Issue with a particular laptop : no interaction possible

[Frederic Crozat]

Le vendredi 15 décembre 2006 à 23:44 +0100, Olivier Chapuis a écrit :
> Frederic Crozat a écrit :
> > Hi,
> > 
> > we have found one particular laptop (which is unfortunately running on
> > cooker but I think it is not cooker related) where interaction with
> > metisse is almost impossible :
> > 
> > when metisse is started, pressing mouse button 1 will always bring "Root
> > menu" and you can't do any selection in it, either with mouse or
> > keyboard.
> > 
> > If you try to start any application (manually, using DISPLAY= ..), all
> > mouse events are grabbed by fvwm and popup root menu instead.
> > 
> > This laptop doesn't have a left Ctrl or Window key. I'm wondering if
> > this is causing the issue.
> > 
> 
> I do not think so. OpneGL Picking, Selection or unproject fail.

It could be interesting to add some debug output somewhere.

> > If you need more info / trace about this, just ask.
> 
> Are you sure that you have 3D acceleration on this laptop? Can
> you test a modern 3D games with it?

We were using r300 opensource driver (it is a Radeon 8500 mobility),
which works well with 3D games. We switched to proprietary driver and it
works fine now.

-- 
Frederic Crozat <fcrozat at mandriva.com>
Mandriva