X crash when using touch screen on Freescale MX51 in Karmic

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Hi Zhang,

This bug was reported against an earlier version of Ubuntu, can you
test if it still occurs on Lucid?

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This issue still exists in lucid. Jason has found one fix for it. Will attach soon.

Hi There,

I've fix this issue, the patch is attached.
the root casue is:
Xorg will load the config until find a NULL pointer, add a NULL pointer at the tail of default config to avoid crash.

Thanks,
Jieijing

Yep, confirm that this list needs to be NULL terminated, in order for xf86optionListCreate() to count how many options there are.

Patch looks good for sponsoring to natty as well as SRU to lucid and maverick (same version of -evtouch is present in all three ubuntu releases).

This bug was fixed in the package xf86-input-evtouch - 0.8.8-4ubuntu3

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xf86-input-evtouch (0.8.8-4ubuntu3) natty; urgency=low

  * Add 07_null_terminate_config_list.patch - Xorg will load the config
    until it finds a NULL pointer, so add a NULL pointer at the tail of
    default config. Fixes crash when using touch screen on Freescale MX51.
    (LP: #511491)
 -- Bryce Harrington <email address hidden> Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:57:51 -0800

Accepted xf86-input-evtouch into lucid-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

Accepted xf86-input-evtouch into maverick-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

A sufficient amount of time has passed for testing in -proposed, please roll out the maverick and lucid packages to -updates.

Nobody tested the proposed packages yet and confirmed that they work and don't introduce a regression.

Martin, this is a very rarely used driver and I would not expect it to have that many users watching this bug.

The patch is obviously correct and has been adequately tested in other releases. -evtouch is not critical infrastructure, but this is a serious bug if and when it does come up.

Hi Martin,

We have tested this patch on i.MX 53 Tablet reference board Ubuntu release,
it works fine.

Best regards,
Zhang Jiejing

2011/6/28 Bryce Harrington <email address hidden>

> Martin, this is a very rarely used driver and I would not expect it to
> have that many users watching this bug.
>
> The patch is obviously correct and has been adequately tested in other
> releases. -evtouch is not critical infrastructure, but this is a
> serious bug if and when it does come up.
>
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Maybe Eric Miao @ Canonical also verified this patch.

Hi Eric,

I think you have used Ubuntu touch screen in MX53 SMD board, this patch is
need to make the touchscreen worked, but the Bug owner need some one tested
this patch.

This patch was applied on i.MX 's ubuntu image, the xf86-input-evtouch
package in freescale's deb package, so better this patch can going to
ubuntu's release.

Can you say something ?

Best regards,
Zhang Jiejing

2011/6/28 Jiejing.Zhang <email address hidden>

> Hi Martin,
>
> We have tested this patch on i.MX 53 Tablet reference board Ubuntu
> release, it works fine.
>
> Best regards,
> Zhang Jiejing
>
>
>
> 2011/6/28 Bryce Harrington <email address hidden>
>
>> Martin, this is a very rarely used driver and I would not expect it to
>> have that many users watching this bug.
>>
>> The patch is obviously correct and has been adequately tested in other
>> releases. -evtouch is not critical infrastructure, but this is a
>> serious bug if and when it does come up.
>>
>> --
>> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
>> report.
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/511491
>>
>> Title:
>> X crash when using touch screen on Freescale MX51 in Karmic
>>
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>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xf86-input-evtouch/+bug/511491/+subscriptions
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>
>

CCing Eric Miao,

Maybe Eric Miao @ Canonical also verified this patch.

Hi Eric,

I think you have used Ubuntu touch screen in MX53 SMD board, this patch is
need to make the touchscreen worked, but the Bug owner need some one tested
this patch.

This patch was applied on i.MX 's ubuntu image, the xf86-input-evtouch
package in freescale's deb package, so better this patch can going to
ubuntu's release.

Could you confirm this?

Thanks~

Best regards,
Zhang Jiejing

>
>
> 2011/6/28 Jiejing.Zhang <email address hidden>
>
> Hi Martin,
>>
>> We have tested this patch on i.MX 53 Tablet reference board Ubuntu
>> release, it works fine.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Zhang Jiejing
>>
>>
>>
>> 2011/6/28 Bryce Harrington <email address hidden>
>>
>>> Martin, this is a very rarely used driver and I would not expect it to
>>> have that many users watching this bug.
>>>
>>> The patch is obviously correct and has been adequately tested in other
>>> releases. -evtouch is not critical infrastructure, but this is a
>>> serious bug if and when it does come up.
>>>
>>> --
>>> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
>>> report.
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/511491
>>>
>>> Title:
>>> X crash when using touch screen on Freescale MX51 in Karmic
>>>
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>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xf86-input-evtouch/+bug/511491/+subscriptions
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>>
>>
>

Did you test the patch (manually applied), or the actual package from -proposed?

I tested this patch with put the patch under debian/ dir of the package, and
use debian tool to generate the package.

not tested -proposed, since the MX53/MX51 is actully ARM based.

Can I get the -proposed package with ARM cross-compiled ?

BTW, this evtouch(event based input device ) is more common on ARM based
hardware/board.

Best regards,
Zhang Jiejing

2011/6/28 Martin Pitt <email address hidden>

> Did you test the patch (manually applied), or the actual package from
> -proposed?
>
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The package 0.8.8-4ubuntu2.1 is fixed the crash on Maverick for me.

The fix for this bug has been awaiting testing feedback in the -proposed repository for lucid for more than 90 days. Please test this fix and update the bug appropriately with the results. In the event that the fix for this bug is still not verified 15 days from now, the package will be removed from the -proposed repository.

The version of xf86-input-evtouch in lucid-proposed has been removed as this bug report was not verified in a timely fashion.

lucid has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the lucid task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".