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 1MPL8U-0006wr-Ub for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:47:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7D05DE0433; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:47:49 +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 55DFDE0433 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:47:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk20 with SMTP id 20so5091880gxk.10 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:47:49 -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=WjijEJFAPfhdCWgqVfaJjLZ+K5LoO8zH7LSkBifvprQ=; b=cmK+y1A4dmUsKJJrqnuDOZ0S9R/pHA9ZLINnKPF7trfdaxQwS6KJ5MLgVbt3JeBaQJ 3HlqkdrBdqRuvtH3l5fGjfg4LpWNQs9Ynau7NGcgHeChEmN9ibx+oAxk5j/5eIHAbFvY Rd0+iS5N6r1qpdHn+hroN9yxtH+hbfxHARaHk= 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=CF6Mxzion7F0/9BTgbQTz7CQJpz6ej4sQh3ZgSdAJTJGcZTeNHqYQE0C5Jpm0bBneR umgzNsbWOYyBqzC9SdQCGEOW+Z7Wwp2Zkef+W2CR9wplY7W1O6zYjmuNksBkKW4ox2O3 6GcGxXa074DPH2zJ09nTlX2xvjSUf6z5poopk= Received: by 10.90.81.11 with SMTP id e11mr1893908agb.110.1247251667763; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:47:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?64.89.169.18? (r169h18.dixie-net.com [64.89.169.18]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 39sm3819415aga.61.2009.07.10.11.47.33 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:47:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A578CAD.2020907@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:47:09 -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] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes References: <9acccfe50907092003s29c228ei832b7f949b797184@mail.gmail.com> <20090710115549.GA3685@ca.inter.net> <9acccfe50907100843x59951790pf5c12be3c89f69be@mail.gmail.com> <200907101946.00954.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200907101946.00954.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 65a3b4ae-716f-4e27-9c1c-024741498b33 X-Archives-Hash: e2aa0dfa61f6083db7f9d22ee80c3876 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 10 July 2009 17:43:44 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Philip Webb wrote: >> >>> 090709 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >>> >>>>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Dale wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> If all else fails: >>>>>> x11-base/xorg-server -hal >>>>>> >>>>> Is there any other advice? >>>>> >>>> A new HAL made no difference. Sigh. >>>> >>> I ran into this twice, first on my frontline machine, then on the >>> stand-by. The solution was 'USE="-hal" emerge xorg-server', then remerge >>> all drivers. There was a Gentoo help doc re it, which gave this as the >>> simplest option. >>> >>> 'evdev' is a separate matter: you need to include it in your kernel, >>> than you can simplify your drivers. >>> >>> HTH >>> >> Evdev has been included in my kernels throughout this mess. It hasn't >> helped. The Gentoo doc on the upgrade was a bit scetchy about >> configuring HAL; now that I find that disabling HAL in xorg is the >> solution, I suspect that the underlying problem is HAL configuration. >> After all, there's nothing at all special about my mouse or keyboard. >> >> Why should we have to configure HAL manually? Since the stone ages, >> Linux installations have determined what keyboard we have and have set >> things up for us. How different can PS/2 or USB mice be? >> >> SO: if anyone succeeded with xorg and HAL, with a USA keyboard and a >> wheel mouse, would please tell me about their HAL config, I'd sure >> love to see it. >> > > I run latest unstable here with a regular USA layout on a Dell XPS M1530 with > nvidia driver, hal and evdev. The HAL config is empty apart from a policy file > for a touch pad, and it's a dual-screen setup. Here's my xorg.conf: > > # egrep -v '^$|^#' /etc/X11/xorg.conf > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "Layout0" > Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 > EndSection > Section "Files" > EndSection > Section "Module" > Load "dbe" > Load "extmod" > Load "glx" > EndSection > Section "ServerFlags" > Option "Xinerama" "0" > EndSection > Section "Monitor" > # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid > Identifier "Monitor0" > VendorName "Unknown" > ModelName "Samsung SyncMaster" > HorizSync 30.0 - 81.0 > VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0 > Option "DPMS" > EndSection > Section "Device" > Identifier "Device0" > Driver "nvidia" > VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" > BoardName "GeForce 8600M GT" > EndSection > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Screen0" > Device "Device0" > Monitor "Monitor0" > DefaultDepth 24 > Option "NoLogo" "True" > Option "TwinView" "1" > Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0" > Option "metamodes" "CRT: nvidia-auto-select @1440x900 +1920+0, > DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0+0" > SubSection "Display" > Depth 24 > EndSubSection > EndSection > > It all JustWorks for me, I assume in my case at least it's working as > designed. > > What gets me is this, I even did a fresh install on another hard drive, it don't work there either. hal and friends were included from the very start of the install too. Either I am missing something that is not in the guide or it just don't like my hardware. My mouse is a old P/S2 type mouse. It's not even as complicated as a USB thingy. Dale :-) :-)