Bug#493101: x crashes at startup with backtrace output
reassign 493101 xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
retitle 493101 synaptics: incorrect use of the EVIOCGBIT ioctl
tag 493101 patch upstream fixed-upstream
kthxbye
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 14:51:57 +0200, Nico Schottelius wrote:
> Found the problem!
>
> I also upgraded the kernel to latest linux-next:
>
> dcb80fdb8cffd3fa06cd322b3e8227632ec23597, v2.6.27-rc1-2457-gdcb80fd.
>
> When booting with 2.6.26-next-20080725-denkbrett, it works fine.
>
> So perhaps something that needs to be fixed in xorg before upgrading
> to the lastest kernel.
>
This turned out to be a bug in the synaptics driver. See the thread
entitled 'linux-next: Tree for July 30' on lkml. The kernel will
probably work around it, but in any case I just pushed the patch from
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.input/5447 to the
upstream synaptics repo.
Cheers,
Julien
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