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 1MPKCD-0005bG-TA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:47:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 93481E04FD; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:47:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f207.google.com (mail-ew0-f207.google.com [209.85.219.207]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 401EAE04FD for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:47:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy3 with SMTP id 3so1063167ewy.34 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:47:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=aWCZCUUeXEjrCQek6qfDI0NNxLFhsC7/lW0s/oRFjM8=; b=G6z98VhtBXy9YmJRNkkgpozlQnHN9/Ss+olXb2eTul3U17s7JrXeypgvNkFrKm4xN2 bKzdutXbCyOMSOMDCK5Doo7x1Uhw8eDZfxO5dAyKESWm5DogynPWyG2eBWIRgA1M+Qtd VQV4JxHOPrLELk56l9Eyaeapws2qX6jmkTbi0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition:message-id; b=JeVLNfBG+N3TvC5NzCFKwVxyW5TBcdxcjkgzTaiv9ky8zFos7LMOCBqUn+oscLAcj8 n8qCOqnejVRSsnmHfJnapWhCDFxpzze9Q1mXHblOmbiXwwjNeokxS+dLDeMH/UbHrr1d 8bei7FzTiG322QRZcYWFDkw8vcP6LTlmWHN5A= Received: by 10.210.102.12 with SMTP id z12mr1509340ebb.70.1247248059683; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:47:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet ([196.210.202.145]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 23sm3138908eya.36.2009.07.10.10.47.38 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:47:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:46:00 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.4 (Linux/2.6.30-gentoo-r2; KDE/4.2.4; x86_64; ; ) Cc: "Kevin O'Gorman" References: <9acccfe50907092003s29c228ei832b7f949b797184@mail.gmail.com> <20090710115549.GA3685@ca.inter.net> <9acccfe50907100843x59951790pf5c12be3c89f69be@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9acccfe50907100843x59951790pf5c12be3c89f69be@mail.gmail.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="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200907101946.00954.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: b854c246-8674-4eb5-8f07-6542edf48b96 X-Archives-Hash: e9ef07c582f7468e0b7a04fab726e0d1 On Friday 10 July 2009 17:43:44 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Philip Webb wrote: > > 090709 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Dale wrote: > >>>> If all else fails: > >>>> x11-base/xorg-server -hal > >>> > >>> Is there any other advice? > >> > >> A new HAL made no difference. Sigh. > > > > I ran into this twice, first on my frontline machine, then on the > > stand-by. The solution was 'USE="-hal" emerge xorg-server', then remerge > > all drivers. There was a Gentoo help doc re it, which gave this as the > > simplest option. > > > > 'evdev' is a separate matter: you need to include it in your kernel, > > than you can simplify your drivers. > > > > HTH > > Evdev has been included in my kernels throughout this mess. It hasn't > helped. The Gentoo doc on the upgrade was a bit scetchy about > configuring HAL; now that I find that disabling HAL in xorg is the > solution, I suspect that the underlying problem is HAL configuration. > After all, there's nothing at all special about my mouse or keyboard. > > Why should we have to configure HAL manually? Since the stone ages, > Linux installations have determined what keyboard we have and have set > things up for us. How different can PS/2 or USB mice be? > > SO: if anyone succeeded with xorg and HAL, with a USA keyboard and a > wheel mouse, would please tell me about their HAL config, I'd sure > love to see it. I run latest unstable here with a regular USA layout on a Dell XPS M1530 with nvidia driver, hal and evdev. The HAL config is empty apart from a policy file for a touch pad, and it's a dual-screen setup. Here's my xorg.conf: # egrep -v '^$|^#' /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout0" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 EndSection Section "Files" EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "extmod" Load "glx" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" Option "Xinerama" "0" EndSection Section "Monitor" # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Unknown" ModelName "Samsung SyncMaster" HorizSync 30.0 - 81.0 VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0 Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Device0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" BoardName "GeForce 8600M GT" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Device0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 Option "NoLogo" "True" Option "TwinView" "1" Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0" Option "metamodes" "CRT: nvidia-auto-select @1440x900 +1920+0, DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0+0" SubSection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection It all JustWorks for me, I assume in my case at least it's working as designed. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com