Touchscreen working on Lucid Alpha 2, Breaks with Recent Upgrades
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xf86-input-wacom (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: xorg
Not sure if this is a Xorg bug, a HAL bug, a devicekit bug or a kernel bug, but here goes:
When I installed Kubuntu Lucid Alpha 2 (alternate cd) on my Dell Latitude XT my touchscreen worked without any configuration (at least mouse movement and clicking). It worked the next day after reboot, but after upgrading all packages on Monday the 18'th and rebooting the touchscreen no longer works. I'm guessing this has something to do with the removal of HAL, but the thing that has me curious is that the touchscreen still seems to be registering in both /dev/input/mouse1 and /dev/input/mice. Despite this (and the touchpad, pointer nipple and usb mouse all working) it just doesn't seem to influence the cursor at all.
By the way, by "working" I'm only referring to using the screen in single touch, mouse mode, not n-trig's multitouch (although I'm looking forward to getting that working eventually :)
Thought I should let you guys know as the touchscreens are fairly unusual technology rapidly becoming more popular.
Let me know what other info I can provide to help.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jan 20 14:28:46 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/
MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude XT
Package: xorg 1:7.5+1ubuntu1
PccardctlIdent:
Socket 0:
no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
Socket 0:
no card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
RelatedPackageV
xserver-xorg 1:7.5+1ubuntu1
libgl1-mesa-glx 7.7-0ubuntu8
libdrm2 2.4.17-0ubuntu1
xserver-
xserver-
SourcePackage: xorg
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-11-generic x86_64
XorgConf: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/X11/
dmi.bios.date: 05/12/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A03
dmi.board.name: 0Y041C
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.
dmi.product.name: Latitude XT
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
fglrx: Not loaded
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
system:
distro: Ubuntu
architecture: x86_64kernel: 2.6.32-11-generic
affects: | xorg (Ubuntu) → xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu) |
tags: | added: regression-potential |
tags: | added: kubuntu |
tags: | removed: regression-potential |
I don't pretend to know anything about this area. I am curious though, why would an input device problem would be assigned to the ati video driver?
I looked through XOrg.0.log and found a whole bunch of references to the wacom module not being found. That led me to noticing that xserver- xorg-input- wacom having not installed properly. It complains of needing xserver-core >= 2:1.6.2. Strangely, the installed version 2:1.7.3. 902-1ubuntu9 doesn't seem to register as being sufficient, and so xserver- xorg-input- wacom fails to install, which looks like the root of the problem to me.
I assume that there is some kind of packaging problem blocking the needed dependencies, and that when xserver- xorg-input- wacom / xserver-core are updated that the wacom module will be installable solving this.
...or I could be wildly, brazenly, completely wrong. :-)