From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Hk0MC-00011h-9g for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 16:10:08 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l44G88OT000691; Fri, 4 May 2007 16:08:08 GMT Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l44G3ELg027313 for ; Fri, 4 May 2007 16:03:15 GMT Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id a29so719139pyi for ; Fri, 04 May 2007 09:03:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=YidHpGJI1rIjn7TkjlGS/s2EBf3kcUAC/XWyxzhQJjujWgIheNkpiYZDd+4elImGBj582EFI6aVI2J/z54THJeBD/agfEA1o8dW8UfI9dYRiI9TjnCmwaskiL/rPGvq1FH5NMnw4MbY5hgxyLcaSybwDj8ypi6ZOvmlk848Y77k= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=nZz52q0IynMItfnVaDRUaoyhhQbPMczdDl5C9PMnUgI54re0ATjV3Ir327/1BucYiqW5FiMBmMl0ie9o1lK5C4BeUE1Y8H7XsoQIUhLvwfu9g+uPsAYkRrVbQMaLTtWOYRzIbyJHTyooICxllaLqfgtV+pnLC+bbHnTEUsYcr1E= Received: by 10.65.43.5 with SMTP id v5mr6154782qbj.1178294594177; Fri, 04 May 2007 09:03:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.105? ( [24.36.7.237]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id f16sm2630074qba.2007.05.04.09.03.12; Fri, 04 May 2007 09:03:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <463B5940.8010709@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 12:03:12 -0400 From: Colleen Beamer User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070306) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Xserver on Dell Inspiron M1710 References: <463927F7.7050606@gmail.com> <463940AA.7070801@geographic.net> <463AB742.2070205@gmail.com> <1178256047.29289.8.camel@orpheus> <463B2C01.9050802@gmail.com> <1178287324.29289.11.camel@orpheus> In-Reply-To: <1178287324.29289.11.camel@orpheus> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 5a45e5e1-7bb3-4cce-b0d3-83ea1e4e255d X-Archives-Hash: 5b215ef5e9482935453cada58f6d15d6 Hi all, First, I have to thank you *all* for your patience with me. I'm not a developer and my formal computer training is limited. However, I'm not stupid (I know no one has implied that), but I get a little frustrated when I've done something successfully a half dozen times and now it doesn't work. The difference with this Gentoo install is the nvidia card. I've always used ATI cards and after this experience, I think I still prefer them. Anyway, .... Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 08:50 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote: >> Iain Buchanan wrote: >>> On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 00:32 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote: >>> >>>> Mouse support is compiled into my kernel (genkernel) >>>> Although the section for keyboard is there, there isn't a relevant >>>> choice to pick, but I assume that's because this is a laptop. >>> are you able to post your kernel .config file somewhere? Perhaps >>> there's a problem there... >> I'll try, but it won't be until tonight. > > pastebin is good for this kind of thing (pastebin.com). Just let us > know the number! I think I *may* have solved my problem. I had nvidia (NV2) support built into the kernel. I rebuilt the kernel without nvidia support, removed xorg-x11 and removed nvidia-drivers. Then I did emerge --update --deep nvidia-drivers. A bunch of stuff was updated because of newer versions being available, but a number of things were installed - like kbd and mouse. I don't know maybe having nvidia support built into the kernel was preventing the xorg drivers for mouse and keyboard being installed. I *did* read the nvidia guide, but I must have misunderstood because I thougt that only older nv drivers were incompatible with newer cards. Anyway, now I'm emerging KDE. Will let you know officially how it goes. Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list