Package: debian-installer
Severity: grave
Hello,
I downloaded the netinst daily-built image at [1] because I needed a
rescue CD and tried the 'rescuegui' boot target: while it loads
without any problem, as soon as I touch the touchpad of my IBM T42p
[2], the pointer disappeares. The same happens with the 'installgui'
boot target. Checking the logs in the first console doesn't show any
error (and the Synaptics TouchPad is correctly recognized [3]).
Some points:
- this happens only with the touchpad, not with the IBM TrackPad
- pressing the touchpad buttons seem to leave the pointer in its place
- the same burned image works as expected into qemu (I mean, the
pointer doesn't disappear).
The severity is grave because we've two problems here:
1) the pointer disappearing
2) the fact that in the country selection window, the country submenu
cannot be opened without the mouse. I mean, I chose English as
language and then I tried to press return on Europe, but this
triggers the "Continue" button pressed action. And this ends in a
loop. I think that even in the graphical installer, the user
should be able to use the keyboard instead of the mouse ;-)
I'm here to test any possible solution :-D
Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-rc6
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
[1] http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
[2] this is the model number 2373-GTG
[3] from my already installed Debian sid /var/log/kern.log
Jun 11 16:10:46 gismo kernel: Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 5.9, id: 0x2c6ab1, caps: 0x884793/0x0
Jun 11 16:10:46 gismo kernel: serio: Synaptics pass-through port at isa0060/serio1/input0
Jun 11 16:10:46 gismo kernel: input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /class/input/input1
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