Questions on Networking and the frame buffer

[Justin Hibbits]

On Aug 1, 2011, at 7:26 PM, Super Bisquit wrote:

> Which driver is compatible with the orinoco airport card? The port
> net-mgmt/airport will not build due to jdk being only for i386 and  
> amd64; is
> there an available jdk for powerpc?
>
> The mouse is grabbed at the screen edge and I need to restart X each  
> time;
> what arguments must be passed to xorg.conf to prevent such from  
> happening?

I don't know about the orinoco driver, but I do sometimes also  
experience the mouse problem, and have posted to the list regarding  
it.  There's nothing I've found to prevent the mouse from getting  
stuck, but I believe it's something to do with floating point math,  
maybe the FPU isn't being reset properly, or isn't presenting the  
right rounding behavior (IEEE-754 vs "fast mode").  It's an annoyance  
I've learned to live with, but would still like solved.

- Justin