Bug#413538: G-I freezes on directfb initialization

[murphymichael@netscape.net]

On Thursday 08 March 2007 11:56, you wrote:
> 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

I did as you asked and found the culprit.  It's the external keypad:  a 
Dynex Model No.:  DX-NBKP20.  $5.99 at BestBuy.  It takes very little 
money to get into a lot of trouble.  

Better the keypad than the mice -- I'd think there would be 
comparatively fewer of these keypads in use.  Thanks for the sleuthing 
and for making etch such a great release.  

Michael