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 1PqskX-0005ZG-5B for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:45:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 665661C03F; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:44:21 +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 36CCB1C03F for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:44:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gwb10 with SMTP id 10so2936244gwb.40 for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 11:44:20 -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=WapT07D17fu5kQg9TN8p8eqZWgEkh9BUL6aKyUXYkRg=; b=O0om+oIBisv8/3rm3kf627+TrzzEkLwGXriPDxEkLBBmdA5JGV5xuQ4sBJdcPvyg2z jYX0paPLLDUPTHOiZZmW2PpuJv5QCsC2QqyAa+banQE573+sPuxmfwRUalYdYyMIiF/S r/1fk19U7eJNzgITKk2nWqjkmhBG8k6R7EWYo= 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=So6EEXhxapN68QYpTFLcUpC9IXlKbcRj8yfnUn2idstKkfgNX1+Yjdf3qzf9Kj/7nO dSRTiWpTfLopl4NUuohl0Pf4lXwgBc13jn1cinkmmb2yX61qlcQbUiEG7udyKb9mqief CdEcOpgy92Py8CPhuwZgQa5ZkdxLHjrgso0ug= Received: by 10.151.61.15 with SMTP id o15mr2818285ybk.268.1298144660525; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 11:44:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.10.6] (c-68-32-248-84.hsd1.tn.comcast.net [68.32.248.84]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w15sm776817ybk.1.2011.02.19.11.44.19 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 19 Feb 2011 11:44:20 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D601E81.1000301@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 14:48:17 -0500 From: Valmor de Almeida User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20110218 Lightning/1.0b3pre Lanikai/3.1.7 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: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X References: <4D600CBF.8030300@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: c82bd7255cf3ede4c8d2ec67c58a7bf1 On 02/19/2011 01:46 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [snip] >> >> 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. -- Valmor