From: Alexia D. <ale...@gm...> - 2008-12-26 16:44:18
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On Friday 26 December 2008 18:35:34 Loïc Martin wrote: > > The staircase is a bug in a specific 1.4(IIRC) series X server. I tried > > to debug it once from gimp side. Its just how gimp gets the events from > > X... I never had it but I cooped with someone who did. Upgrade in xserver > > will get rid of it i believe. > > Are you 100% sure? No, not really... I don't know what tablet my debugging partner had... All I managed to establish was that thats how the events came from X and there was nothing I could do about that gimp side... And there was some sort of scaling bug in X at the time... > The staircase lines I had were definitely not with > Xsever 1.4 (in 2005 it wasn't out AFAIK) and I didn't have to upgrade to > solve it. Just some configuration changes, although it took me a few > days to get it working. I also saw that problem in a demonstration booth > on Windows XP+a drawing program (Corel Paint or similar), 3 or 4 years > ago, and with Intuos3 hw. I never thought it could be a configuration issue with specific hardware... I will check what model the tablet in question was... I would be grateful if you could remember what configuration was changed... --Alexia |