Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

[Willie Wong <wwong@Math.Princeton.EDU>]

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 01:16:34PM -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > > These are the only lines with the word "mouse" in them.
> >
> > Kevin, what I would try first is to set INPUT_DEVICES="evdev mouse" in your
> > /etc/make.conf, then emerge x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse and finally
> > reboot.
> > Unless your mouse needs some special driver it will just work.

The advice is to set the appropriate flag in /etc/make.conf 
NOT what you are doing below to /etc/X11/xorg.conf

> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> So I tried the same thing with two statements
> 
> Section "ServerLayout"
>     Identifier     "X.org Configured"
>     Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
>     #InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
>     #InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
>         InputDevice     "evdev"
>         InputDevice     "mouse"
> EndSection
> 

That is not exactly the right syntax for Xorg.conf
If you are using an xorg.conf and not just using evdev/hal, then you
should probably have something more like this in your configuration
file:

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "X.org Configured"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "auto"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mouse1"
EndSection

...plus other things. In the InputDevice section for Mouse0, note the
Option that sets the Device to /dev/input/mouse1. You will have to set
that to the appropriate path to the pointer device. It will most
likely by somewhere in /dev/input/  (often just mouse0 or mice, I have
a separate touchscreen device so mine is at mouse1). If you do not
have a mouse device listed in /dev/input, then you need to check
either your kernel configurations or your udev configurations. 

For more about the proper syntax in xorg.conf, try "man xorg.conf".

If you are unsure about how to write your xorg.conf file, post its
full contents to the list and we'll take a look at it. 

Cheers, 

W
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Willie W. Wong                                     wwong@math.princeton.edu
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