On Sunday 16 May 2010 02:24:10 Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Mine has xf86-* drivers as well.  OP, do you have your setting in
> > make.conf correctly?  Mine looks like this:
> >
> > INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev"
> >
> > I do NOT use hal so your settings may need to be different but you do
> > need the line tho.
> >
> > I have INPUT_DEVICES="evdev", and adding either of the others makes X go
> 
> back to not starting at all.

That's right, you will also then need to install the appropriate x86 driver; 
e.g. x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse

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Regards,
Mick