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Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:47:22 -0700
From: "Justin Mattock" <justinmattock@gmail.com>
To: "Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: evdev.c(EVIOCGBIT): Suspicious buffer size 511,
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On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Justin Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 6:31 AM, Dmitry Torokhov
> <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:00:40AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>> On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:10:54 -0700 "Justin Mattock" <justinmattock@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > I'm noticing:
>>> > evdev.c(EVIOCGBIT): Suspicious buffer size 511, limiting output to 64
>>> > bytes. See http://userweb.kernel.org/~dtor/eviocgbit-bug.html
>>> > with rc-3 not with rc2.
>>> > Did the patch to synaptics, seems
>>> > my xorg is not reading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/synaptics_drv.o
>>> > only /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so
>>> > is there any easy fix, or do I have to recompile xorg?
>>> > regards;
>>> >
>>>
>>> (cc's added)
>>>
>>
>> You can just copy the updated file manually into
>> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/.
>>
>> I tried rebuilding synaptics from here:
>>
>> git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-input-synaptics
>>
>> but unfortunately it fails with some automake crap that I don't have
>> time to trace through at the moment.
>>
>> --
>> Dmitry
>>
>
> Cool, I'll have a try at it again.
> What I did was copy /usr/lib/X11R6/lib/modules/input/synaptics_drv.o
> to /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/   then renamed it to synaptics_drv.so
> the module loads but is broken.  When given time today I'll try and
> reinstall, and see if I can get it working.
>
>
> --
> Justin P. Mattock
>


debian SID  upgraded there package
for synaptic message
is fixed.

-- 
Justin P. Mattock