Hi
Forwarding to you this bugreport we got: it's about an USB numeric
keypad that causes DFB to crash when handled by linux-input.
It looks like linux-input is also prone to crash on some MacIntosh PPC
harwdare [1] as well.
Attilio
[1]
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/GUIToDo#head-fa668fd9c7b4c31a91f90019b6133be37ab31fda
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On Thursday 08 March 2007 11:56, you wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Monday 05 March 2007 13:45, Frans Pop wrote:
>
> <snip/>
>
> >>Can you try booting the installer with 'installgui
> >>DEBIAN_FRONTEND=newt', switch to VT2 when the first dialog comes up
> >>[1] and then give us the output of the following commands:
> >>- cat /proc/bus/input/devices
> >>- ls -l /dev/input
> >>- dfbinfo
> >
> > Here's the output:
>
> </snip>
>
> > Input (00) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard (primary keyboard)
> > Type: KEYBOARD
> > Caps: KEYS
> >
> > Input (01) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad (primary mouse)
> > Type: MOUSE
> > Caps: AXES BUTTONS
> > Max. Axis: 1
> > Max. Button: 2
> >
> > Input (10) USB tenkeypad
> > Type: KEYBOARD
> > Caps: KEYS
> >
> > Input (11) Logitech USB Receiver
> > Type: MOUSE
> > Caps: AXES BUTTONS
> > Max. Axis: 3
> > Max. Button: 15
> >
> > Input (12) TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint
> > Type: MOUSE
> > Caps: AXES BUTTONS
> > Max. Axis: 1
> > Max. Button: 2
> >
> >
> >
> > Hope this helps.
>
> This may be a bug in the input handling subsystem of DFB, we already
> had a lot of preoblems with it in the past we fixed.
>
> In order to detect what's the input peripheral that causes DFB to
> crash, could you please try unplugging the numeric keypad and the
> wireless mouse receiver and see if the graphical installer still
> crashes?
>
> If the installer should still crash, is there a way to disable from
> bios the trackpoint and test again ?
>
> thanks
>
> Attilio
I did as you asked and found the culprit. It's the external keypad: a
Dynex Model No.: DX-NBKP20. $5.99 at BestBuy. It takes very little
money to get into a lot of trouble.
Better the keypad than the mice -- I'd think there would be
comparatively fewer of these keypads in use. Thanks for the sleuthing
and for making etch such a great release.
Michael
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