Re: [Linuxwacom-discuss] GIMP and Graphire4 - phantom anchor in top left?

[Magnus V. <Mag...@ip...>]

On söndag 24 februari 2008, Magnus Vigerlöf wrote:
> On söndag 24 februari 2008, Lee Jackson wrote:
> > I'm running into a showstopper using my Graphire4 with the 0.7.9-7
> > driver in the GIMP under Arch Linux.  There seems to be some sort of
> > "phantom anchor" in my top left corner of the screen.  It's hard to
> > explain without showing you a picture of what's happening.
> >
> > Example:  When I touch the drawing area using the stylus with the
> > paintbrush tool, I don't get a dot like you'd expect.  Instead, I get a
> > line that starts at the contact area and goes off directly to the upper
> > left-hand corner of my screen.  The line fades like a gradient, with the
> > dark end at the stylus point.
> >
> > This happens with either the stylus or the eraser.  When I use the
> > cursor/mouse to try and draw straight lines, I get an angle with the
> > vertex at the 0,0 point of my screen.
> >
> > How do I fix this?  What do you need to see in order to debug this???
>
> This only occur when you're using the tools in relative mode? If so it's
> probably related to this post [1]. I've committed a patch to master that
> address this (12e53240).

Sorry... Wrong list :) => Funky context...

This is probably a bug in Xorg.. One which has been addressed in the master 
branch.. I've got a few patches there which I'm waiting a little while to 
nominate to 1.4 to ensure that noone finds any regressions due to them.

Cheers
  Magnus

> [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2007-December/031195.html