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 1PqrdP-0002yy-Jh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:34:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9D1D61C01F; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:32:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gw0-f53.google.com (mail-gw0-f53.google.com [74.125.83.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ACBA1C01F for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:32:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gwb10 with SMTP id 10so2914652gwb.40 for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 10:32:34 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=G0MS9poRYW4j7mRKygs+uLZVNpyXd7jBcx/yiHL1DCc=; b=R2KJKggLRb61V+3QtHljuLpZKEtMSH2H0ZR19lucKFoUweyq+CjpGw8rYe5mAeRlCa 8yF96+VhbIu6zD4IfHWCZfFM7bilxQSPP5aO4tRokt1zT5Pt8ha48NXhP4nnJn2cofrm j79La8qbPE8kNPkXDu9uQHxcjNvSnSiEXcD1M= 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=M2w4ph4UvRUfXrYcZXmNqEd1r3ERI9wWJm2BjD5byC7KGWOyqZnJJRnE74cAKxl+vV kqUFlOqW3b9xjVuA2JOlU5bxMebs5q+pj5B1ui5pInwJHSSi8T4+umbxdOquM2GNuo6i qvJxUeAh34Rw6wamdw9kAhDtrkjekR5LmOktw= Received: by 10.90.57.33 with SMTP id f33mr2910877aga.166.1298140354696; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 10:32:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-0-93-174.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.93.174]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g76sm2163654yhd.37.2011.02.19.10.32.32 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 19 Feb 2011 10:32:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D600CBF.8030300@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:32:31 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20110217 Gentoo/2.0.11 SeaMonkey/2.0.11 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] help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 3b79462faf139235aecddd11535bc98c Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Valmor de Almeida 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 :-) :-)