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Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:24:51 -0700
From: Keith Dart <keith@dartworks.biz>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes
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On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:18:35 -0700
Keith Dart <keith@dartworks.biz> wrote:

> Set the "hal" use flag and emerge x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev. See if
> that helps you.

Also make sure you have this in your make.conf:


INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev"

Remove mouse and keyboard sections in your xorg.conf file also.

The evdev and HAL are supposed to make X much simpler to set up and
use. ;-)


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