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 1MPIYn-0002F2-9c for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:02:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E4456E05C0; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:02:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f220.google.com (mail-gx0-f220.google.com [209.85.217.220]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0832E05C0 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:02:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk20 with SMTP id 20so4638558gxk.10 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:02:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=DvOi8luMBUkQ8oW6ZuN/amJm7deogpZfepgPLMSo1Mw=; b=eLYaYXf3pERWfQ0yOVQuGAM0py86CLN6ZQN2dab5rWkDSohzb1p1nUyrid/li8oBrc wJLxUUvTwDx/ewrkZPDexVtfGMrUjv4WEBGdYVq1R7AL24V1X6iCBZwV/VimaIC8rhr/ EAdOK3Kmu5pzXme31RVQ8kcPux6gIEE1PZJ34= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=By+c2LRCkoVbXJAibHqsMIXJPAivMxJ6tC8MKynik5/LbEi7Dd8QIWWqnctW5i6yBG dIF+DAj+5CUp0ierDxH/19eZKaKhwEnbK4qgh7EZ3lb6QRhUXMGmy81QCo37ARHFMzDB PfCbMEls6z/mEgc8F3U75DOIUO/XtJ08H8qmg= Received: by 10.90.80.4 with SMTP id d4mr1837933agb.4.1247241728307; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:02:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?64.89.163.135? (r163h135.dixie-net.com [64.89.163.135]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 11sm3186417aga.70.2009.07.10.09.02.04 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:02:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A5765F9.7060408@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:02:01 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090628 SeaMonkey/1.1.17 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes References: <9acccfe50907092003s29c228ei832b7f949b797184@mail.gmail.com> <20090710011835.5d406a1e@dartworks.biz> <9acccfe50907100310g118108aegda08f7934d670f3@mail.gmail.com> <4A573FD1.5070803@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 87b1f71d-c1d0-426c-bcf7-6f734ff961ea X-Archives-Hash: c15a8d1462d49feadeeb8528e2832375 Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 10 Jul, Dale wrote: > > >> Same thing here. I just tried again to get hal, evdev and all his >> "drive me crazy" friends to work, it doesn't. It appears to me that hal >> will be disabled in package.use for xorg-server FOREVER. I'm sick of >> messing with evdev. I'm waiting on something better to come along. I >> bet someone does come up with something better too. This has been a >> PITA since it came out. >> > > Yes, I did have some problems with xorg + hal. But now it's working even > better with hal than without (e.g. I had problems with using my mouse > and my Wacom tablet simultaneously). > > Now I'm running xorg-server-1.6.2 > > The following steps seem to be essential: > > emerge everything X-related with hal (I've put it into /etc/make.conf) > > Let hald start at boot time (very important) > i.e. rc-update add hald boot > > Make a minimal xorg.conf (no drivers for any input device) > the first lines being > > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "Default" > Screen 0 "Screen 0" 0 0 > # Option "AllowEmptyInput" "false" > Option "AIGLX" "on" > EndSection > > Section "ServerFlags" > # Option "DontZap" "true" > Option "AutoAddDevices" "on" > Option "AutoEnableDevices" "on" > Option "AllowEmptyInput" "on" > EndSection > > Section "Extensions" > Option "Composite" "On" > EndSection > ....... > > In /etc/make.conf (here) > INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev wacom" > > add the file /etc/hal/fdi/policy/x11-input.fdi > > here: > > > > > hal-setup-keymap > microsoft > xorg > en_US > en_US > microsoft > xorg > > > > evdev > 7 6 > 5 4 > 8 > 4 5 > 30 > true > > > > > > Very import when upgrading to 1.6.* > re-emerge everything that is installed from x11-drivers/* > > Now, you should have the best X11 ever (note, I'm using the > bleeding-edge stuff (unstable isn't the wright word) > i.e. I have > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" (or ~x86 on a 32 bits machine) > > Helmut. > > > > I printed this but I'm not sure I want to even try this mess again. I'm to the point that until what I have doesn't work anymore, I'm sticking with what does. This has left a bad taste in my mouth. Tasted like a skunk that died about 4 days ago, in the hot sun I might add. Yep, it is ripe. Dale :-) :-)