Claudio Ciccani wrote: > Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: > >> Luca Capello wrote: >> >>> Package: debian-installer >>> Severity: grave >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I downloaded the netinst daily-built image at [1] because I needed a >>> rescue CD and tried the 'rescuegui' boot target: while it loads >>> without any problem, as soon as I touch the touchpad of my IBM T42p >>> [2], the pointer disappeares. The same happens with the 'installgui' >>> boot target. Checking the logs in the first console doesn't show any >>> error (and the Synaptics TouchPad is correctly recognized [3]). >>> >>> Some points: >>> >>> - this happens only with the touchpad, not with the IBM TrackPad >>> >>> - pressing the touchpad buttons seem to leave the pointer in its place >>> >>> - the same burned image works as expected into qemu (I mean, the >>> pointer doesn't disappear). >>> >>> The severity is grave because we've two problems here: >>> >>> 1) the pointer disappearing >>> >>> 2) the fact that in the country selection window, the country submenu >>> cannot be opened without the mouse. I mean, I chose English as >>> language and then I tried to press return on Europe, but this >>> triggers the "Continue" button pressed action. And this ends in a >>> loop. I think that even in the graphical installer, the user >>> should be able to use the keyboard instead of the mouse ;-) >>> >>> I'm here to test any possible solution :-D >> >> >> >> hi luca >> >> you should be able to expand/collapse GTK trees by using "+" and "-" >> keys. >> about the touchpad bug: neither my touchpad (synaptic) works with DFB >> 0.9.24, unless the linux_input module is deleted. >> Maybe we could add something in directfbrc to prevent that module from >> being loaded? DFB pople, what do you suggest to do? >> >> friendly >> >> Attilio > > > Add "disable-module=linux_input".
this proved to work well for me, so if no one speaks against it, i propose to apply this patch to rootskel-gtk Index: src/etc/directfbrc =================================================================== --- src/etc/directfbrc (revisione 38024) +++ src/etc/directfbrc (copia locale) @@ -1 +1,2 @@ screenshot-dir=/var/log +disable-module=linux_input #needed for touchpads to work Attilio _______________________________________________ directfb-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-dev
