From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MY6fO-0000IL-QR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:10:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 685C1E03A8; Mon, 3 Aug 2009 23:10:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f220.google.com (mail-gx0-f220.google.com [209.85.217.220]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 424BFE03A8 for ; Mon, 3 Aug 2009 23:10:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk20 with SMTP id 20so16230667gxk.10 for ; Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:10:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=fddWUsWrMq45UPL78I5z1LYTsFwXjeoUfmdA1V9304Q=; b=aY7DiImGdpuLedNHC96EcsY85A8GPsRLR1IK/kk4r7LfXoRClxJ7kFKWjedEAa4jNi lRE7o9TbXe4gf4gpP/Nu08xfNUYboiOfXI16DJgSqWiJMoN0lgbHt1MI4o6hvcyD91B7 a6dwyEmjuVyPhZJ+q76y/rdR0TpPwXTxngVMM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=x/Yi76HBkKLjBLclshaWgdIHSzbNP0xULAl+CcMaAjU759/H9OxHtQ7/PQWwXXPJ7z 2FEgVM3gdSIRqYAD1z6BOOg7A5FS0Bol9/VzTRpEK+FZQvyfC4/LjpTKMxo6vdMbo3kO hQOXVlC2hLoJL5tlzP6CW03/dlD5nscxo0Oh8= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.100.239.4 with SMTP id m4mr147604anh.97.1249341004960; Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:10:04 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0908031600p4ba190b0ya560748a6d636126@mail.gmail.com> References: <1249240542.4834.25.camel@linux-4c3s.site> <1249241980.4351.9.camel@linux-4c3s.site> <5bdc1c8b0908021318t4ed765d4qa4f2fb1d0f06aeb0@mail.gmail.com> <1249274767.4305.23.camel@linux-4c3s.site> <1249275587.5149.13.camel@localhost> <5bdc1c8b0908030725l402032d6l28d3869ee3f059b6@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0908030920p36508cf8n8b95915c367a18e6@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0908031600p4ba190b0ya560748a6d636126@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 18:10:04 -0500 Message-ID: <77e2f44f0908031610p25e2d84et4be580037c33d8eb@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Problem with USB-Keyboard at Install From: Chris Faulkner To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: e45b45bc-8bf3-4b3f-bd4a-24e4ef45dcb8 X-Archives-Hash: b2758a95e59bc476e547eb8e21592206 Then again it could be something like what I was experiencing. I have a MS Mouse and it would not work in FreeBSD. I inquired about it on a mailing list and they said that there wasn't any driver support for that particular MS mouse. It could be a simple matter of no driver support in the OS. Try a Logitech keyboard or some other keyboard. On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Duncan<1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote: >> Mark Knecht posted >> 5bdc1c8b0908030920p36508cf8n8b95915c367a18e6@mail.gmail.com, excerpted >> below, on =A0Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:20:35 -0700: >> >>> Duncan<1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote: >>>> Mark Knecht posted: >>>>> Lance Lassetter wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Have you tried enabling evdev in make.conf under INPUT_DEVICES? >>>>> >>>>> How could he do this when he's trying to boot from an install CD? >>>> >>>> Hmm, mount the ISO using loopback, make the change, umount, burn? >> >>> =A0 =A0So I guess you are suggesting that someone doing a Gentoo instal= l, >>> and finding that the install CD fails to work, is then possibly going t= o >>> modify the install CD? >>> >>> =A0 =A0Beyond that what make.conf are we speaking about? As I asked ove= r >>> the weekend, and as far as I can tell, there is no make.conf on the >>> install CD to modify. (With the keyboard we don't have because we're >>> running USB unless this is a completely different installation on the >>> same machine, or we're doing it on a different machine.) >>> >>> =A0 =A0Maybe I'm underestimating INPUT_DEVICES but I thought that was o= nly >>> for xorg-server which isn't running when the install CD finishes bootin= g >>> is it? Even if the OP had done what you suggested, had enough knowledge >>> of Gentoo to think about creating a make.conf file and placing "keyboar= d >>> mouse evdev" in it, burned a new copy, and then rebooted, what changes >>> about the environment that is running at that point? >>> >>> =A0 =A0I'm really confused and I know this because you are, no joke her= e, >>> one of my Gentoo guiding lights! Enlighten me! Please! >> >> Your points are valid (well, I'll take that guiding light thing at face >> value, thanks, but the rest anyway is valid, AFAIK), but that's not >> really what I was commenting on. > > You should always assume GLS (Guiding Light Status) when conversing > with me. :-) > >> >> Seeing as he had already solved the problem, > > Which I had not read at the time I responded.... > >> I was jumping into less >> serious mode, and the bit about not writing to a CD struck my fancy. >> > > Fair enough. > > I'm interested in the problems of installing Gentoo, whatever they > tend to be, as I'm one of the ever dwindling number of vocal Gentoo > supporters in the pro-audio community. (They are all leaving for Arch > or Ubuntu variants it seems) One acquaintance ask me about installing > 64-bit Gentoo last week and specifically asked about new hardware > issues. Seemed to me that the OP's USB keyboard issue might be fairly > common so I wanted to try to solve it here, if possible. Seems it > wasn't unfortunately. > > Anyway, good to know that I'm not *totally* off base with my view of > what these little bits of software do, and your point is interesting. > One thing that would be possible would be to do the setup as you > suggest, then zcat the running config to a .config file, go to the web > and get kernel source, compile the source with any changes required, > and then (possibly) install that kernel into whatever part of the iso > image necessary to make it an option for booting. > > Still, installing from some other distro that actually works seems > easier and why, by the way, does that other distro support > installation for the OP when Gentoo does not? Seems strange to me.... > > Cheers, > Mark > >