Bug 446432 – x11-drivers/xf86-input-tslib does not work with xorg > 1.11

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Gianluigi Tiesi 2012-12-08 04:50:43 UTC]

Created attachment 331790 [details, diff]
proposed patch

there is already a bug report on debian bts:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=674821

I've added a simple patch that re-adds conditionally xf86XInputSetScreen with the code xorg removed in 1.12
I've tested it and it works for me, really it was working even commenting out the call

actually it builds but it will fail with undefined symbol when loaded by xorg

adding as major since it's unusable with xorg > 1.11, currently gentoo ships 1.13

[Comment 1 ALeX 2012-12-27 18:11:59 UTC]

Today tested the patch on my HP iPAQ hx4700. It works.

[Comment 2 Pavel Riha 2013-06-13 15:55:09 UTC]

I can confirm the same problem. and the patch helped

is there any reason not to including it in portage?

[Comment 3 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn 2013-06-13 17:45:13 UTC]

(In reply to Pavel Riha from comment #2)
I can't speak for embedded, but x11 team is not keen on maintaining patches indefinitely. So some sort of path for upstream inclusion of this patch would make it more acceptable for us.

[Comment 4 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn 2013-06-17 18:14:01 UTC]

It appears like the original upstream is inactive and development mostly happens at Ubuntu now.

embedded: do you object if we switch upstreams and ship Ubuntu's version of xf86-input-tslib instead?

[Comment 5 Nikoli 2013-08-05 10:14:24 UTC]

Seems like maintainer timeout, there were no objections, may be you will commit to tree?

[Comment 6 Anthony Basile 2013-09-14 09:41:03 UTC]

(In reply to Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn from comment #4)
> It appears like the original upstream is inactive and development mostly
> happens at Ubuntu now.
> 
> embedded: do you object if we switch upstreams and ship Ubuntu's version of
> xf86-input-tslib instead?

If the original upstream is dead and ubuntu is active, and their driver works, I don't see any problem.

[Comment 7 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn 2013-09-15 15:16:39 UTC]

It appears that Ubuntu's package is not up to date wrt xorg-server support either. So I added the patch from attachment 331790 [details, diff], and switching of upstreams will have to wait for now.