Bug#413538: G-I freezes on directfb initialization

[Attilio Fiandrotti <attilio.fiandrotti@gmail.com>]

murphymichael@netscape.net wrote:
> On Monday 05 March 2007 13:45, Frans Pop wrote:

<snip/>

> > Can you try booting the installer with 'installgui
> > DEBIAN_FRONTEND=newt', switch to VT2 when the first dialog comes up
> > [1] and then give us the output of the following commands:
> > - cat /proc/bus/input/devices
> > - ls -l /dev/input
> > - dfbinfo
>
> Here's the output:

</snip>

> Input (00) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard    (primary keyboard)
>    Type: KEYBOARD 
>    Caps: KEYS 
>
> Input (01) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad      (primary mouse)
>    Type: MOUSE 
>    Caps: AXES BUTTONS 
>    Max. Axis: 1
>    Max. Button: 2
>
> Input (10) USB tenkeypad                 
>    Type: KEYBOARD 
>    Caps: KEYS 
>
> Input (11) Logitech USB Receiver         
>    Type: MOUSE 
>    Caps: AXES BUTTONS 
>    Max. Axis: 3
>    Max. Button: 15
>
> Input (12) TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint         
>    Type: MOUSE 
>    Caps: AXES BUTTONS 
>    Max. Axis: 1
>    Max. Button: 2
>
>
>
> Hope this helps.

This may be a bug in the input handling subsystem of DFB, we already had 
a lot of preoblems with it in the past we fixed.

In order to detect what's the input peripheral that causes DFB to crash, 
 could you please try unplugging the numeric keypad and the wireless 
mouse receiver and see if the graphical installer still crashes?

If the installer should still crash, is there a way to disable from bios 
the trackpoint and test again ?

thanks

Attilio