[gentoo-user] Re: usb-keyboard not working...

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Sebastian Beßler <webmaster@darkmetatron.de> writes:

> Am 06.11.2009 22:39, schrieb alex ponomarev:
>> If you're talking about X, try to emerge HAL daemon, it's now necessary to
>> work your input devices correctly.
>
> Is it?
> I have X without hal working here.
> As long as it works it can help to make things easier.
> But it can be disabled.

True here to... I've been running without hal for a while.  At the
most recent update world (3 days ago now) I noticed something wanted
to pull in hal, but quickly put `-hal' under  /etc/make.conf USE, and
proceeded without it.

If you've upgraded xorg-server recently, you also need to rebuild and
of the xorg drivers you have installed.   I didn't do that at the
upgrade mentioned above and had no mouse keyboard in X either.

First I found all drivers with `eix -Ic |grep driver'

Then re-emerged them all.  Rebooted and mouse/keyboard worked in X
then.

I'm running a much newer kernel than what you posted, so not sure how
that effected things.