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Bug#714095: xorg: crash on touch of Samsung Galaxy S touchscreen with experimental evdev



Control: reassign -1 xserver-xorg-input-evdev
Control: severity -1 important
Control: close -1 1:2.8.1-1

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 01:12:17 +0800, Paul Wise wrote:

> Package: xorg
> Version: 1:7.7+3
> Severity: normal
> 
> I've been trying to get Debian working on my Samsung Galaxy S smartphone
> for a while. The initial issue I had was Xorg not accepting touchscreen
> input due to some interaction with evdev being weird:
> 
> http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2012/12/03/debian-mobile/
> 
> I recently noticed that evdev from experimental adds multitouch support
> so I thought I would revisit it. Still running the Android/Replicant
> version of the Linux kernel with Debian testing on armhf. First I noted
> it that Xorg seems to think this touchscreen is a mouse instead of a
> touchscreen. Then I noted that Xorg now crashes when I touch the screen.
> You may note the commented things in xorg.conf below, if I uncomment
> them then the same crash still happens. If you want to take a look at
> this issue on the hardware itself, I'll bring it to DebConf13, otherwise
> let me know what I should try - patches etc.
> 
The crash was fixed in 2.8.1.

Cheers,
Julien

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