Re: [gentoo-user] help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Valmor de Almeida<val.gentoo@gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Hello,
>>
>> I had a working laptop with xorg 1.7 using hal; including usb mouse
>> (left hand swapped buttons), synaptics for a mouse pad, hotplug
>> monitors in a virtual screen, etc. For this to work I had a
>> hand-configured xorg.conf file and additional hal policy
>> configurations.
>>
>> I have just updated xorg to 1.9.4 with USE -hal and removed hal in
>> this order (also needed to remove hal from the default run level).  I
>> tried startx using the existing xorg.conf and X does not start
>> correctly, I have no mouse and a frozen screen (no keyboard) with the
>> arrow cursor placed in the middle of the screen. I also tried to start
>> X without an xorg.conf; same problem.
>>
>> Here are the outputs of some commands:
>>
>> emerge --info
>> Portage 2.1.9.25 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.4.4,
>> glibc-2.11.2.-r3, 2.6.36-gentoo-r5 x86_64)
>>
>> emerge -pv --newuse --update --tree --with-bdeps=y world
>> Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 kB
>>
>> emerge --depclean -vp
>> Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to
>> the following required packages not being installed:
>>
>>    sys-apps/hal  pulled in by:
>>        x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics-1.2.1
>>
>> In make.conf  I have:
>>
>>   USE="-hal ...."
>>
>>   INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics"
>>   VIDEO_CARDS="intel"
>>
>> Thanks for your help.
>>
>> --
>> Valmor
>>      
> I'm guessing that you might need to use the older keyboard and mouse
> drivers instead of evdev. Just a guess though.
>
> - Mark
>
>    

As some already know, I removed hal a long time ago so basically you 
want a set up similar to mine now.  This is in my make.conf:

INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev"

Don't forget to enable udev as Mike suggested too.  I put mine in the 
USE line.  After all, about all hardware now uses udev to see hardware.

Hope this helps a little.

Dale

:-)  :-)