Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: > clone 342053 -1 > retitle -1 Input driver linux_input crashes on some PPC machines > tags -1 upstream > thanks > > Ville Syrjälä ha scritto: >> On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 11:25:34AM +0200, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: >>> Christian Schaubschlaeger ha scritto: >>>>> You're right, i was confusing the deadkeys bug, which is gtkdfb >>>>> related, >>>>> with this other one, which is dfb related. >>>>> Anyway, we never succeeded in addressing this specific issue :( >>>> I see. Are there any known workarounds for this? I guess I'm not the >>>> only one who wants to use keymaps other than us... I tried using >>>> linux_input as inputdriver instead of dfb-keyboard, but that >>>> does not help unfortunately. >>> I've been working for a couple of years now with DFB inthe context of >>> developing the graphical debian installer and, at current date, >>> linux_input is the DFB component which is causing us most severe >>> headaches. >>> >>> Most severe issue we found is linux_input crashing on some PPC >>> machines [1], this force us to switch to keyboard and ps2mouse >>> drivers depending on specific hardware, which adds complexity to the >>> installer and prevents us from switching to an unique input driver >>> for all i386, amd64 and ppc. >> >> BTW it would make sense to re-test the crash cases. Many ioctl arguments >> were incorrect. It was spotted by Sakur here: >> http://mail.directfb.org/pipermail/directfb-dev/2007-April/002961.html >> >> I pushed the fix some time ago: >> http://git.directfb.org/?p=core/DirectFB.git;a=commit;h=47d97462a08240236683b4cc3aa77c66bd8ca241 >> >> > > I'm cloning bug 342053 to a specific bugreport about linux_input > crashing on some PPC machines: i should have done this before to > distinguish from the case a crash occours because of video hardware > acceleration. > > The patch Ville applied upstream should be backported to dfb 0.9.25 and > a test gtk-miniiso built to see whether this patch fixes the bug or not. > > Unluckily, i cannot do this test myself because i own no PPC hardware: > so it would be nice if a PPC owner among those who reported a crash [1] > with PPCs could perform this check and report results. Once at every two weeks I have access to the PowerBook I brought with me in January 2006 in Spain. Also, until Sunday, next week I will also have access to it. Please announce when everything is set for a test and provide an image and I will test. -- Regards, EddyP ============================================= "Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein
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