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Bug 81213 - no dlloader synaptics driver for x11 available
Summary: no dlloader synaptics driver for x11 available
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: X11 External Driver Maintainers
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Reported: 2005-02-08 03:04 UTC by Klaus Kusche
Modified: 2011-10-30 22:39 UTC (History)
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Description Klaus Kusche 2005-02-08 03:04:09 UTC 
The ebuild x11-misc/synaptics always results in an "oldstyle" (elfloader) synaptics module for x, which requires pax mprotect to be turned off for the x11 server executable (Xorg).

It is not possible to configure the synaptics and the xorg-x11 ebuilds in a way which produces an x server which includes a synaptics driver and runs with pax mprotect: The static server does not contain the synaptics driver, and no dlloader synaptics module can be built for the dlloader server.
Comment 1 Thierry Carrez (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-02-08 04:28:55 UTC 
Not a vulnerability, reassigning
Comment 2 solar (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-02-08 07:08:06 UTC 
Donnie, This seems like an UPSTREAM request.
Comment 3 Adam Jackson 2005-02-08 09:02:55 UTC 
or if you'd rather just do the postprocessing in the ebuild:

gcc -shared -nostdlib -o synaptics_drv.so synaptics_drv.o -Bstatic -lgcc
Comment 4 gad.kadosh 2005-10-24 16:49:46 UTC 
dlloader is now supported in synaptics ebuild I think. Maybe synaptics should be moved to x11-drivers 
soon ?
Comment 5 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-12-09 07:39:45 UTC 
dlloader is supported in recent synaptics ebuilds. will look into moving this
package to x11-drivers category.