X crashes when hotplugging/unplugging a wacom tablet. mine is a graphire 4 but i have reports of bamboo too (see comment on linked blog) error messages from the X log: (EE) Wacom Graphire4 4x5 pad: Top/Bottom area overlaps with another devices. (EE) Wacom Graphire4 4x5 cursor: Top/Bottom area overlaps with another devices. (EE) Wacom Graphire4 4x5 eraser: Top/Bottom area overlaps with another devices. i found a solution for this, a change to /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-x11-input.fdi fixes it: - <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input"> + <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.touchpad"> <match key="info.product" contains="Wacom"> <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">wacom</merge> a blog entry (german) where i posted my solution some time ago, please tell me when you need a translation http://doppelhertz.wordpress.com/2009/04/24/xinputhotplug-teil-4-der-erfolg-geht-weiter/ Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. hotplug a wacom tablet on a system with xorg-server 1.5 Actual Results: X crashes Expected Results: tablet should work with pressure sensitivity and such, without crashing X Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1, 2.6.28-tuxonice-r10 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.28-tuxonice-r10-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_X2_Dual_Core_Processor_5200+-with-glibc2.2.5 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 04:45:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.7 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r14, 2.5.4-r2 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.2-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.imj.fr/pub/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.netcologne.de/gentoo/ http://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/ http://mirror.jamit.de/gentoo/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_ALL="de_DE.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="de" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--exclude-from=/etc/portage/rsync_excludes" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/desktop-effects /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X acl acpi alsa amd64 apache2 bash-completion berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri fortran gdbm glitz gpm gtk hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog jpeg lm_sensors midi mmx mmxext mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly opengl openmp pam pcre php png pppd python readline reflection sdl session sharedmem smp spl sse sse2 ssl svg sysfs tcpd threads truetype unicode xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard wacom" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS
Where does the /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-x11-input.fdi file come from, I don't have it. My file at /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-x11-input.fdi does not contain any wacom specifics.
i'm not sure where i have that file from. from an earlier blog entry i now know that i found the contents for it from other blogs and google search results... i didn't even know there is /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/ so, if hotplug works without any problems on a fresh install you can probably set this to invalid (and i will update my blog...)
Pat, could you please test for us whether you experience this problem by moving your /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-x11-input.fdi somewhere else, rebooting the box, and seeing if you still experience the overlapping issue?
tablet still works fine after i removed my wacom .fdi file thanks for the hint with the default fdi files
Ok, thanks very much for testing that...
Marking as INVALID, since it wasn't anything that came with the package that went wrong...
