Re: Powerpc (mac-G4) -essentially broken
On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 15:12, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> Michel Dänzer wrote:
>
> >On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 03:58, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> >
> >>Nick Bailey wrote:
> >>
> >>>Thridly (out of two 8-): the mouse crashes when exiting KDE.
> >>>I've not seen this in a bug report. It's a USB one and works
> >>>fine until you exit KDE. The remapping of F11 and F12 as the
> >>>two mouse buttons works fine too (just left the stuff in from
> >>>Potato). I know there's a way to go yet before Woody gets
> >>>release, but I wanted to be ready 8-)
> >>>
> >>This is a known problem with X 4.1.0, on both PPC and ARM
> >>(little-endian, but unsigned char and framebuffer like PPC). Seems to
> >>happen with kdm and gdm (the GNOME version), and I've noticed that if I
> >>log in and log out real fast, it's fine.
> >>
> >Haven't seen it with gdm, does it only happen with the fbdev driver?
> >
> Must be an fbdev driver thing then.
Strange though; what the ... does the fbdev driver have to do with the
mouse? The only thing I can imagine is that it's somehow related to
ShadowFB, but of course reality tends to go far beyond any imagination.
:)
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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