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

[Valmor de Almeida <val.gentoo@gmail.com>]

On 02/19/2011 01:46 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
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>>
>> 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.
> 
> You only need "evdev".  "keyboard" and "mouse" are deprecated drivers. 
> They have bugs that no one appears to be fixing anymore.
> 
> 

I am only using evdev and finally got my X Window server working fine.
Need to do some fine tuning to get a left-hand mouse working. Amazing
that the mouse pad works and so does the mouse pointing keyboard stick.

There is little from hal to clean up. Apparently only the /etc/hal
directory with some policy files were left there since they did not
belong to hal originally.

Thanks for the help. This was less painful than I thought. However it
exposed a internet connection problem. I am using wicd for wireless and
wired internet config. This laptop happened to be in a place where no
wired internet is available. Since I use the wicd-client X config
utility I was not able to connect to the internet while X was down.
There is a wicd-cli but the man page is empty. I guess I will have to
get some info on how to use wicd-cli on an emergency like this.

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Valmor