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Tasklist

FS#5225 - Evdev drivers no longer work

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Woody Gilk (Shadowhand) - Tuesday, 15 August 2006, 23:38 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Current
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture not specified
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.2 Gimmick
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Using the "evdev" driver in xorg no longer works. A recompile of the driver fixes the issue. Not sure what package upgrade broke it, but it is most definately broken. Starting xorg will fail with "Could not open DEVICE, PREINIT failed" or something along those lines.
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Closed by  Woody Gilk (Shadowhand)
Tuesday, 10 October 2006, 04:46 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  User error.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Wednesday, 16 August 2006, 06:16 GMT
Hmm, this is weird. I've compiled the package in a chroot, then installed it on my system, worked. Harddisk crashed, placed harddisk from other system in this system, upgraded to all latest versions, updated xorg.conf to match my system, evdev driver causes segmentation faults right after showing the pointer.
It's weird to see a package working before uploading, but breaking everything after uploading.

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