[Bug 6971] Mouse "escapes" window or is confined to an area in the full screen program NO HACKS PLEASE

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6971

--- Comment #477 from David  2011-05-04 13:48:05 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #475)
> (In reply to comment #474)
> > Im trying to get Mass Effect 2 working with 360 degress mouse rotation, but I
> > still didnt succeed :(
> >
> > I used wine 1.3.18 => didn't help at all
>
> I just tested ME2 on wine 1.3.18 and the mouse rotation works now.  I do
> remember testing 1.3.16 or .17 and the mouse would leave the window, but it
> works now.  I have the same Xorg and kernel, but I use Gentoo.  If it makes any
> difference, I played in windowed mode in a Wine virtual desktop.  Without the
> virtual desktop, the window sizes itself to only show the upper left corner of
> the game, but that's another bug.

Thanks a lot for replying!

Well since you had a positive result I tried it again and I also tested ME2 in
a virtual desktop, result:

wine 1.3.17 + dinput2 patch => NO 360 degrees rotation
wine 1.3.17 + dinput2 patch + virtual desktop => NO 360 degrees rotation
wine 1.3.18 => NO 360 degrees rotation
wine 1.3.18 + virtual desktop => NO 360 degrees rotation
wine 1.3.19 => NO 360 degrees rotation
wine 1.3.19 + virtual desktop => NO 360 degrees rotation

In conclusion I don't know how your setup differs from my setup, but apparently
there is something that is making my setup fail :(

It might be that the applied Ubuntu patches broke something that the Gentoo
kernel left intact. Or perhaps you compiled your kernel with different
parameters than the default Ubuntu kernel build, which just make the
difference. but I'm out of ideas :(

If you find anything special about your kernel or Xorg build, please let me
know!

some more info about the patched wine 1.3.17:
I downloaded wine 1.3.17 from sourgeforge and patched wine 1.3.17 using the
following commands:
  patch -p1 < lib/wine-src/extracted/wine-1.3.17
  ./configure
  make -j 4

And then I set the the correct wineprefix (using 'export
WINEPREFIX=/dir_to_wine_prefix' )
and I ran ME2 using this new wine (when I'm in the correct dir) using its
absolute path, as in:
  ~/lib/wine-src/extracted/wine-1.3.17/wine "MassEffect2.exe"

If anyone has a working Ubuntu 11.04 + wine + ME2 setup please let me know!