nwfermi_daemon won't load in Ubuntu 10.04 x64

[Tom Dickson]

I am trying to figure out why I cannot get my Sony VAIO's touchscreen to work in x64 Ubuntu 10.04.1.

At first nothing happened, so I added the InputClass to Xorg.conf. Now I get:

(II) config/udev: Adding input device Nextwindow Fermi Touchscreen (/dev/input/event8)
(**) Nextwindow Fermi Touchscreen: Applying InputClass "evdev pointer catchall"
(**) Nextwindow Fermi Touchscreen: Applying InputClass "nw fermi"
(II) LoadModule: "nextwindow"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/nextwindow_drv.so
(II) Module nextwindow: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
        compiled for 1.9.0, module version = 0.0.1
        Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
        ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 11.0
(WW) module ABI major version (11) doesn't match the server's version (7)
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event8"
(II) Nextwindow Fermi Touchscreen: Using device /dev/input/event8.
(**) Option "UseTouchHelp" "1"
(II) Nextwindow Fermi Touchscreen: Using touch help.
(**) Option "DragThreshold" "10"
(**) Option "RightClickTimeout" "1200"
(**) Option "DoubleClickTimeout" "500"
(**) Nextwindow Fermi Touchscreen: always reports core events
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Nextwindow Fermi Touchscreen" (type: TOUCHSCREEN)
(II) Nextwindow Fermi Touchscreen: On.
(II) config/udev: Adding input device Nextwindow Fermi Touchscreen (/dev/input/js0)
(II) No input driver/identifier specified (ignoring)
(II) config/udev: Adding input device Nextwindow Fermi Touchscreen (/dev/input/mouse2)
(II) No input driver/identifier specified (ignoring)

but the touchscreen is not working. I notice that nwfermi_daemon is not running, so I try to manually start it:

sbin # ./nwfermi_daemon
-bash: ./nwfermi_daemon: No such file or directory

But the file is there! Attempting to run ld on it gets:

sbin # ld nwfermi_daemon
ld: i386 architecture of input file `nwfermi_daemon' is incompatible with i386:x86-64 output

Could it be that it needs a x64 version?

[Tom Dickson (8-launchpad-bombcar-com)]

Aha! If I install ia32-libs it then seems to work.

[djp (djpnewton)]

Hi Tom,

Thanks for the bug report, it sounds like I need to put a dependancy on ia32-libs into my x64 package (or start building x64 bit versions of nwfermi_daemon).