diff --git a/templates/xorg-server-dix-getevents-c.diff b/templates/xorg-server-dix-getevents-c.diff
deleted file mode 100644
index 965b9e02a1b..00000000000
--- a/templates/xorg-server-dix-getevents-c.diff
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-$NetBSD: patch-aa,v 1.4 2008/09/18 20:56:01 bjs Exp $
-
-On Friday 04 July 2008, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
-> On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 07:52:31PM -0600, Sverre Froyen wrote:
-> > I've tracked the jumping cursor issue down to the function
-> > acceleratePointer in dix/getevents.c.
->
-> All this issues in the past happened because some very smart guys
-> decided to do random broken things from signal context. Which is why
-> this is extremely hard to trace down.
-
-I still see the jumps in 1.4.2.  Perhaps my workaround (attached) could be 
-included until a proper fix is developed?
-
---- dix/getevents.c.orig	2008-06-29 00:23:13.000000000 -0400
-+++ dix/getevents.c
-@@ -613,9 +613,15 @@ GetPointerEvents(xEvent *events, DeviceI
-         clipAxis(pDev, 1, &y);
-     }
-     else {
--        if (flags & POINTER_ACCELERATE)
-+        if (flags & POINTER_ACCELERATE) {
-+            int x_in;
-+            if (num_valuators >= 1)
-+                x_in = valuators[0];
-             acceleratePointer(pDev, first_valuator, num_valuators,
-                               valuators);
-+            if (num_valuators >= 1 && valuators[0] < -3000)
-+                valuators[0] = x_in;
-+        }
- 
-         if (pDev->coreEvents) {
-             /* Get and convert the core pointer coordinate space into
diff --git a/templates/xorg-server.tmpl b/templates/xorg-server.tmpl
index 65cc8ce8d07..338cf8c1b1d 100644
--- a/templates/xorg-server.tmpl
+++ b/templates/xorg-server.tmpl
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 # Template build file for 'xorg-server'.
 pkgname=xorg-server
 version=1.5.1
-patch_files="$pkgname-dix-getevents-c.diff"
 distfiles="
 http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/xserver/$pkgname-$version@.tar.bz2"
 build_style=gnu_configure