Bug#443292: Mouse: cannot open input pEvdev

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 the mental interface of
> Brice Goglin told:
>
>   
>> Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
>>     
>>> Package: xserver-xorg-input-evdev
>>> Version: 1:1.2.0~git20070819-3
>>> Severity: important
>>>
>>> evdev is unloaded. I've recompiled xserver-xorg-input-evdev-1.1.5
>>> against xserver-xorg-dev (>= 2:1.4) and everything seems to be ok
>>> then.
>>>   
>>>       
>> Could you try to locate which git commit introduced the breakage between
>> 1.1.5 and current 1.2.0 upstream branch?
>>     
>
> Please give me a hint to clone branches before git20070819.
>   

You could try git-bisect between current HEAD (almost exactly our
1:1.2.0~git20070819-3) and the 1.1.5 tag.

Grab the whole git tree with:
    git clone git://git.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-input-evdev

Then start bisecting it and tell git that HEAD is bad and 1.1.5 is good.
    git bisect start
    git bisect bad
    git bisect good xf86-input-evdev-1.1.5

git will choose a commit between these 2 points. You build, install, and
test it. If it works
    git bisect good
if it does not work
    git bisect bad

git will choose another commit, .... until you found the exact commit
breaking this.

If you need help building the module, have a look at
http://bgoglin.livejournal.com/10936.html . Let me know if you need more
help.

Brice