From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KtaE1-0001hA-EZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:54:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0844EE010D; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:54:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from crowfix.com (crowfix.com [216.240.38.154]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30E04E00C9 for ; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:53:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 10046 invoked by uid 1000); 25 Oct 2008 03:53:52 -0000 Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:53:52 -0700 From: felix@crowfix.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] More whining about evdev and Xorg 1.5 Message-ID: <20081025035352.GA9795@crowfix.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: e8894df1-621f-4836-9592-78fab94678ae X-Archives-Hash: 8ab5beea3f177ed13eeb0f4eb10ee338 I am beginning to feel that either I am incredibly dense or everybody else is, unless absolutelyeverybody is, and I am one of the few who is not too proud to admit it :-O I have a ~amd64 system with xorg 1.5.2, and running without any X config file is the only way I can get any kind of X system running, but then various keys don't work -- LEFT, DOWN, END, PAGE DOWN at least, but RIGHT, UP, INS, DEL, HOME, PAGE UP work. I have fvwm configured to recognize the Windows MENU key but that doesn't work now, however I am not worried about that now, and expect it is one of the XkbOptions and not important right now. I could be wrong. I have whatever defaults come in /etc/hal/fdi/policy. I have tried variations in there, but they either do nothing or make it worse. I have asked on the forums, used forum and google search, and this seems to be a very common problem, yet the suggested solutions are all over the map, and after trying several which had no effect or a bad effect, I have gone back to no mods at all, a nice virgin X11 and Hal, except I have a .xmodmaps which seems to make no difference so I just leave it in place for the time being. I can live with this, not happily, but better than fighting a downgrade. Is there any definitive solution to this, any definitive guide? -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / felix@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o