evdev.c(EVIOCGBIT): Suspicious buffer size 511,

evdev.c(EVIOCGBIT): Suspicious buffer size 511,

[Justin Mattock]

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;

-- 
Justin P. Mattock

Re: evdev.c(EVIOCGBIT): Suspicious buffer size 511,

[Andrew Morton]

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)

Re: evdev.c(EVIOCGBIT): Suspicious buffer size 511,

[Dmitry Torokhov]

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

Re: evdev.c(EVIOCGBIT): Suspicious buffer size 511,

[Justin Mattock]

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

Re: evdev.c(EVIOCGBIT): Suspicious buffer size 511,

[Justin Mattock]

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
>


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-- 
Justin P. Mattock