Xorg crashes...

[Ryan Daly]

On 01/06/2010 03:59 PM, Justin P. Mattock wrote:
> over here my xorg modules live in:
> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/*
> ubuntu might be the same(but can't remember).
> 
> as for uninstalling, synaptic I think
> might let you uninstall a module
> individually, but you never know might
> want to uninstall a whole mess load of stuff.
> (dependencies)
> 
> depending on what synaptic does if it wants to uninstall
> a mess load, I would not even bother, and just locate
> the evdev_drv.so/la modules rename them or move them to a
> safe location. then git clone 
> git://anongit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-input-evdev
> (or just leave them their and write over them with a fresh copy,
> and when done use apt-get reinstall on it to copy that version again).
> 
> compile it, remember you might need to specify the location of
> the modules with a switch i.g.
> ./configure --someswitch=/specifying/the/location/of/input/modules
> (that's if ubuntu has them in another location other than default);
> 
> then see if it fixes your issue.
> now keep in mind it could be evdev, it could
> even be libpthread or libxrandr.. tough to say.

I grabbed the source and some dependencies, but I'm getting an error on 
the version of the macros installed.

daly at riddler <31#> sh autogen.sh
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal
configure.ac:36: error: must install xorg-macros 1.3 or later before 
running autoconf/autogen
configure.ac:36: the top level
autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 1
autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1

I'm not sure how to overcome that one...  Ubuntu provides a package that 
contains xorg-macros.m4, but I'm gathering that the version I have is 
too low.  I commented out the line that checks for the version to get 
passed it, but I'm not certain if that was OK.  I'm getting another 
error on the compilation:

daly at riddler <36#> make
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/daly/xf86-input-evdev'
Making all in src
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/daly/xf86-input-evdev/src'
/bin/bash ../libtool --tag=CC   --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. 
-I.. -I../include/   -I/usr/include/xorg -I/usr/include/pixman-1   -g 
-O2 -MT evdev.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/evdev.Tpo -c -o evdev.lo evdev.c
libtool: compile:  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../include/ 
-I/usr/include/xorg -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -g -O2 -MT evdev.lo -MD -MP 
-MF .deps/evdev.Tpo -c evdev.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/evdev.o
evdev.c: In function `EvdevKbdCtrl':
evdev.c:1083: warning: ignoring return value of `write', declared with 
attribute warn_unused_result
evdev.c: At top level:
evdev.c:2097: error: `PACKAGE_VERSION_MAJOR' undeclared here (not in a 
function)
evdev.c:2097: error: `PACKAGE_VERSION_MINOR' undeclared here (not in a 
function)
evdev.c:2097: error: `PACKAGE_VERSION_PATCHLEVEL' undeclared here (not 
in a function)
make[2]: *** [evdev.lo] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/daly/xf86-input-evdev/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/daly/xf86-input-evdev'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Is that error caused by the macros being too old, or is that something 
completely unrelated?

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