From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New install, a few problems (or not?)
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2016 08:06:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <493EC760-09F7-4F81-B348-B3E7C5AF190F@antarean.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160910071159.GA3024@waltdnes.org>
On September 10, 2016 9:11:59 AM GMT+02:00, waltdnes@waltdnes.org wrote:
>On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 12:18:51PM +1000, Adam Carter wrote
>
>> I just tried uninstalling xf86-video-vesa and xf86-video-fbdev to see
>if
>> they were required, and X still runs, so you can ignore those
>messages.
>>
>> FWIW i'm kernel 4.7.2 with ~amd64 on a skylake i3.
>>
>> You dont appear to have evdev setup;
>> -> Device Drivers
>> -> Input device support
>> -> Generic input layer (needed for keyboard, mouse, ...)
>>
>> and emerge xf86-input-evdev
>
> ?!?! I've never had evdev installed. Why now? Mouse and keyboard
>work OK.
Evdev helps with swapping mice and keyboards. IOW, when using laptops.
And I think it's the 'preferred' way of doing things these days?
Then again, if you're not having problems with mice and keyboards, I don't see how evdev will 'solve' a non existent problem.
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Joost
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-10 8:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-09 4:50 [gentoo-user] New install, a few problems (or not?) waltdnes
2016-09-09 15:17 ` Daniel Frey
2016-09-09 15:25 ` Daniel Frey
2016-09-10 5:45 ` J. Roeleveld
2016-09-10 1:20 ` waltdnes
2016-09-10 2:18 ` Adam Carter
2016-09-10 7:11 ` waltdnes
2016-09-10 8:03 ` Adam Carter
2016-09-10 8:06 ` J. Roeleveld [this message]
2016-09-12 2:49 ` [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] " waltdnes
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