Re: xserver-xorg crashes due to evtouch

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>]

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 5:11 AM, Prasant J <pj0585@gmail.com> wrote:

>>  if you do this:
>>  $ dpkg -l | grep xserver-xorg
>>
>>  and send the results to the list, it'll give people more of a clue as
>> to what you've actually got installed.
>>
>
> Hi thanks for the reply. heres the output to "dpkg -l | grep xserver-xorg":

> ii  xserver-xorg-input-evdev                1:2.3.2-6
>  X.Org X server -- evdev input driver
> ii  xserver-xorg-input-evtouch              0.8.8-4
>  Touchscreen-Driver for X.Org/XFree86 server
> ii  xserver-xorg-input-kbd                  1:1.4.0-2
>  X.Org X server -- keyboard input driver
> ii  xserver-xorg-input-mouse                1:1.5.0-2
>  X.Org X server -- mouse input driver
> ii  xserver-xorg-input-synaptics            1.2.2-2
>  Synaptics TouchPad driver for X.Org server

 ok - you see how those are a little bit... "old"?  the evtouch driver
is version 0.8.8-4 but all the others are 1.2, 1.4 etc etc?  can i
suggest that you grab the source code and do a rebuild of the package?
 that might help.  try this:

 $ sudo bash (or "su -")
 # script
 # apt-get build-dep xserver-xorg-input-evtouch
 # apt-get source xserver-xorg-input-evtouch
 # dpkg-buildpackage server-xorg-input-evtouch
 # exit
 {file saved as typescript, save it somewhere!)
 $

 that might take a while, but if it succeeds, you'll end up with a
.deb which you can install with "dpkg -i"

 if it doesn't, then... well, use reportbug to create a bugreport,
attach the typescript file to it, and please don't send the typescript
file to debian-arm just send the link to the bugreport which will have
been created on bugs.debian.org ok?

 good luck,

 l.