[solved]directfb 1.4.1-1 update issue

thefatprecious · 2009-07-22 20:38:31

After updating on Sunday, upon reboot I noticed the directfb update appears to break the qingy graphical login. When typing in either the username or password field every character is repeated. For example if you type "test" , "tteesstt" appears. Have had no issues previously and switching to a text qingy session or an agetty console allows access. I'm not using the testing repo for anything and I Syu'ed again a few minutes ago just to make sure I'm completely up to date...

Is anyone else experiencing this? I searched the bugtracker for qingy and directfb and got nothin.... FYI, the FAQ on the qingy site mentions a similar issue with an older version of directfb and Suse which led me to believe this might be an issue with directfb. http://qingy.sourceforge.net/faq.php#Q4 … 20problems

Here are some package details....

$  pacman -Qi directfb
Name           : directfb
Version        : 1.4.1-1
URL            : http://www.directfb.org
Licenses       : LGPL  
Groups         : None
Provides       : None
Depends On     : libjpeg>=7  libxext  sdl  sysfsutils  libpng  freetype2  
Optional Deps  : None
Required By    : qingy  
Conflicts With : None
Replaces       : None
Installed Size : 7256.00 K
Packager       : Eric Belanger <eric@archlinux.org>
Architecture   : i686
Build Date     : Mon 13 Jul 2009 09:48:47 PM CDT
Install Date   : Sun 19 Jul 2009 09:09:41 AM CDT
Install Reason : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script : No
Description    : A thin library that provides hardware graphics acceleration,
                 input device handling and abstraction, integrated windowing
                 system on top of the Linux Framebuffer Device

 $  pacman -Qi qingy   
Name           : qingy
Version        : 0.9.9-2
URL            : http://qingy.sourceforge.net
Licenses       : GPL  
Groups         : None
Provides       : None
Depends On     : directfb>=1.4.1  pam  openssl  ncurses>=5.6-7  libxss  
Optional Deps  : None
Required By    : qingy-theme-arch  
Conflicts With : None
Replaces       : None
Installed Size : 744.00 K
Packager       : Eric Belanger <eric@archlinux.org>
Architecture   : i686
Build Date     : Mon 13 Jul 2009 11:50:32 PM CDT
Install Date   : Sun 19 Jul 2009 09:10:45 AM CDT
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : Yes
Description    : Qingy is a DirectFB getty replacement

Last edited by thefatprecious (2009-07-23 14:32:18)

djszapi · 2009-07-23 03:33:35

And did you try to install manually like the suggestion is in the above link ? Can it work so ?

thefatprecious · 2009-07-23 04:25:12

No I did not want to risk breaking something else. I run a pretty "stock" setup... Just wondering if anyone else in the community that is using qingy specifically is experiencing a similar issue with the updated directfb package.

thefatprecious · 2009-07-23 14:32:05

Ah it appears the maintainer of qingy posted a comment and fix for this specifically in AUR. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=9398

Comment by: Snowman on Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:34:50 +0000

    If qingy behaves strangely (like if each keys were pressed twice), add:
    disable-module=linux_input
    to /etc/directfbrc
    If the file doesn't exist, create it.

That solved the issue for me as well. Thanks Snowman!

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#1 2009-07-22 20:38:31

[solved]directfb 1.4.1-1 update issue

#2 2009-07-23 03:33:35

Re: [solved]directfb 1.4.1-1 update issue

#3 2009-07-23 04:25:12

Re: [solved]directfb 1.4.1-1 update issue

#4 2009-07-23 14:32:05

Re: [solved]directfb 1.4.1-1 update issue

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