Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

[Robin Atwood <robin.atwood@attglobal.net>]

On Friday 10 July 2009, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Kevin O'Gorman<kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Okay, I'm re-emerging hal.  I was already using gcc-4.1.2.  I still
> > have mouse and keyboard emerged, but not mentioned in the xorg.conf.

I am coming late to the party here but I not so long ago did this on an old 
ATI R300 card and and an NVidia FX-5200. All I had to do was to make sure to 
emerge evdev by:

INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev"

in /etc/make.conf and then comment out the mouse/keyboard stanzas in my 
existing xorg.conf. And then it worked. 

If you really feel you need a new video card, I recently got a GeForce 9400 
GT. It has 512MB of RAM, is inexpensive and KDE 4.2 performance is very 
acceptable.

HTH
-Robin
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