[Gta04-owner] Debian testing touchscreen trouble

[Neil Jerram]

Christoph Mair <christoph.mair at gmail.com> writes:

> On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Neil Jerram <neil at ossau.homelinux.net> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've just done a general Debian testing upgrade and have hit a
>> touchscreen problem: X restarts whenever I touch the screen.
>>
>> It looks like the 1.12 release of the X server is still in early days,
>> so perhaps that's the source of the problem.
>
> Did you update goldelicos rootfs?

Yes, I did; I switched it from stable to testing ages ago and have been
incrementally updating ever since.  (Because I wanted some things that
are not yet in stable.)

But now I see the problem with doing that!

> IIRC there is exists a problem with
> the tslib library and you have to stick to a older (or newer?)
> version. There should be something in the ML archive about this topic.

Yes, that rings a bell, thanks.

Well, I do have some Debian rootfs backups that I could try to revert
to, but I've decided instead to try working with QtMoko for a while - so
that's the solution to my problem for now.

Regards,
      Neil