Bug#403268: [directfb-dev] Bug#403268: cdebconf-gtk-udeb: freezes on start showing grey screen and frozen cursor on Toshiba Satellite A40

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

Frans Pop wrote:
> clone 403268 -1
> reassign 403268 rootskel
> tag 403268 + pending
> reassign -1 directfb
> retitle -1 [G-I] Use of ps2mouse module freezes Toshiba Satellite A40
> thanks
>
> On Saturday 16 December 2006 02:45, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
>
> > I guess your hardware is a bit different from mine (IIUC your
> > /proc/bus/input/devices output, your alps touchpad is listed twice,
> > while on my debian system my synaptics touchpad is listed once only)
> > and i cannot reproduce the crash, but what if you boot textual, add
> >
> > disable-module=ps2mouse
> >
> > to /etc/directfbrc and then switch graphical ? does the freeze still
> > happen ? what's now the dfbinfo output ? do both touchpad and usb mice
> > still work ?
>
>
> I booted with BOOT_DEBUG=3 instead and edited /etc/directfb from the debug 
> shell before continuing the boot. Remember that option as it is a lot 
> easier to manipulate the system that way than booting the newt frontend 
> first.

I didn't even know that option exists, that will be for sure useful for 
future debugging

...

> > In the case this should work, we could simply disable ps2mouse on x86
> > (as we did for keyboard module) so that both keyboard and mice/touchpad
> > are always handled by linux_input.
>
>
> Yes, this does indeed work. I agree that it seems safe to disable 
> the ps2mouse module by default for x86, so I'll commit that in rootskel.
>
> Cloning this bug to directfb as I guess the breakage in ps2mouse should be 
> fixed.
>
> Thanks Attilio.

I'm really happy this was fixed quickly: when toight i saw the br about 
the crash i got a bit scared :)
I also suspect the crash you were experiencing with my libdirectfb-udeb 
patched with Ville's version 2 implementation of touchpad handler was 
due to this bug: i'll rebuild miniiso with latest rootskel.

Attilio