Bug#693158: Xorg: symbol lookup error: ...penmount_drv.so: undefined symbol: xf86XInputSetScreen

[Guenter Bartsch <guenter.bartsch@gmail.com>]

Julien,

sorry for my late reply - simply didn't have time to investigate this
further. but: good news is that inputattach is working perfectly!
thanks for the hint :)

I have documented the whole thing in my blog entry

https://sites.google.com/site/guenterbartsch/blog/updateonpenmounttouchscreensupportondebian7

thanks again and best regards,

   guenter



On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 20:05:18 +0100, Guenter Bartsch wrote:
>
>> Package: xserver-xorg-input-penmount
>> Version: 1:1.5.0-1+b2
>> Severity: important
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>> penmount driver will crash the Xorg server on every touch attempt because it
>> seems to use outdated API functions:
>>
>> Xorg: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/penmount_drv.so: undefined symbol: xf86XInputSetScreen
>>
>> the attached patch fixes it (at the expense of probably losing multiple screen
>> support, but at least for single-screen setups the package remains useful and
>> stable).
>>
> Thanks for the patch.
>
> Out of interest, does using inputattach (from the package of the same
> name; see /usr/share/doc/inputattach/README.Debian for setup
> instructions) work with your device?  (That should use the standard
> xserver-xorg-input-evdev driver, which contrary to
> xserver-xorg-input-penmount is still being maintained.)
>
> Cheers,
> Julien