clone 342053 -1 retitle -1 Input driver linux_input crashes on some PPC machines tags -1 upstream thanks
Ville Syrjälä ha scritto: > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 11:25:34AM +0200, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: >> Christian Schaubschlaeger ha scritto: >>>> You're right, i was confusing the deadkeys bug, which is gtkdfb related, >>>> with this other one, which is dfb related. >>>> Anyway, we never succeeded in addressing this specific issue :( >>> I see. Are there any known workarounds for this? I guess I'm not the >>> only one who wants to use keymaps other than us... I tried using >>> linux_input as inputdriver instead of dfb-keyboard, but that >>> does not help unfortunately. >> I've been working for a couple of years now with DFB inthe context of >> developing the graphical debian installer and, at current date, >> linux_input is the DFB component which is causing us most severe headaches. >> >> Most severe issue we found is linux_input crashing on some PPC machines >> [1], this force us to switch to keyboard and ps2mouse drivers depending >> on specific hardware, which adds complexity to the installer and >> prevents us from switching to an unique input driver for all i386, amd64 >> and ppc. > > BTW it would make sense to re-test the crash cases. Many ioctl arguments > were incorrect. It was spotted by Sakur here: > http://mail.directfb.org/pipermail/directfb-dev/2007-April/002961.html > > I pushed the fix some time ago: > http://git.directfb.org/?p=core/DirectFB.git;a=commit;h=47d97462a08240236683b4cc3aa77c66bd8ca241 > I'm cloning bug 342053 to a specific bugreport about linux_input crashing on some PPC machines: i should have done this before to distinguish from the case a crash occours because of video hardware acceleration. The patch Ville applied upstream should be backported to dfb 0.9.25 and a test gtk-miniiso built to see whether this patch fixes the bug or not. Unluckily, i cannot do this test myself because i own no PPC hardware: so it would be nice if a PPC owner among those who reported a crash [1] with PPCs could perform this check and report results. regards Attilio [1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/GUIPowerPC _______________________________________________ directfb-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-users
