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 1MP6Oh-0004Ey-Fd for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:03:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6A020E045E; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:03:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f220.google.com (mail-gx0-f220.google.com [209.85.217.220]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41CF8E045E for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:03:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk20 with SMTP id 20so2811719gxk.10 for ; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:03:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=moUUM1jXl4+5Y5kRsxbOT5HlinhGK6y5yrI4MjOUHbQ=; b=Kn9OUpy56HjmDV8MjlB8um0IDFrpIlz5AiNc0qUu53oJw+kj58jvhFyGNhIIlNuEFx Vp7Ijs+BvGZkstRuZPRbaADGYrfP2U24PFVyEnt6erXp5LkJTScoUW+QXoiJE4gYM51E QREprVUGo6PWfCgO3EEWhWA06K/hBFnE5fOL0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=l/IrNSxIe3113z0YJIGdHsVokLWHCm4lIRFS+eq+cxxyTdG+TslmWGWI+Oqvdkly+p UNnOEQ6teHGlfQ8AdMabalhP56C/nduWVG842k+BsPYqAgTQMe+XqZiEaxdiWrgZdhZN Deuab2h/lrl5HANCWE/DoVYS/xsBoTMMxIkY4= 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 Received: by 10.231.36.68 with SMTP id s4mr487781ibd.47.1247195016684; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:03:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 20:03:36 -0700 Message-ID: <9acccfe50907092003s29c228ei832b7f949b797184@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [gentoo-user] xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes From: "Kevin O'Gorman" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1f47b9e0-2416-4086-a763-c389263b1936 X-Archives-Hash: 4a276e1e63a9479c718ef0051f8ad544 I had tried holding back on xorg-server 1.5, but somewhere in May at least one package got past my version limits and X broke. Rather than to try to revert, I thought surely by now, X would be fixed. Sigh. In another thread, after spending 2 months without a working X server, I got KDM to start. But without the mouse and keyboard. The nice folks who got me that far warned and comisserated thus: On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 7:26 PM, James wrote: > Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > > >> > annd this mailing list's archive should be helpful, as there have been >> > probably dozens of threads about that same problem. :) > >> The elog message from the xorg-server emerge also warns about updating >> drivers. > >> emerge --oneshot $(qlist -I x11-drivers) > > > Yep, > seem my recent > saga. > > > 'emerge -e1 world' did the trick > after dropping back to 1.5.3-r7 on xorg-server > and 8.593 on ati-drivers.... > > see bug 276953 as gcc-4.3.2 killed outgoing mail > on seamonkey.....too several days to recover..... > > > ymmv, > > > Okay, I was hoping for variable mileage, but maybe no dice. I printed and read the upgrade guide I recompiled all drivers. I tried an empty xorg.conf. No dice. I put together an xorg.conf by minimal changes. No dice. The actual symptoms are that touching the keyboard causes a continuous unending stream of garbage characters. The mouse can move that outlined "x" (very very jumpy) until KDM gets displayed and is ignored after that. I guess I give up. My choices are to install Ubuntu, or revert gentoo. Ubuntu will be a pain because of all the config stuff I'll have to do to get this thing tweaked again as I like it. And it may fail in the same way, but it's easier to try older versions of Ubuntu than recompile all of gentoo (that's what -el does, right?) and possibly repeat. I have spare partitions that allow me to do this fairly safely. ================ CUT HERE ================== # This config file is modified from the results of "Xorg -configure" on 9 July 2009 on host treat. # Added this to prevent inputless instances (usually involving bugs in the config) Section "ServerFlags" Option "AllowEmptyInput" "false" EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X.org Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 #InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" #InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "evdev" EndSection Section "Files" ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/OTF" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/" EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "extmod" Load "xtrap" Load "record" EndSection # Added per Xorg 1.5 Update Guide Section "InputDevice" Identifier "evdev" Driver "evdev" Option "GrabDevice" "False" EndSection ZZ Section "Monitor" # Uncommented DisplaySize DisplaySize 410 310 # mm Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "WDE" ModelName "LCM-20v5" HorizSync 30.0 - 82.0 VertRefresh 56.0 - 76.0 Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Device" ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: : integer, : float, : "True"/"False", ### : "String", : " Hz/kHz/MHz" ### [arg]: arg optional #Option "probe_sparse" # [] #Option "accel" # [] #Option "crt_display" # [] #Option "composite_sync" # [] #Option "hw_cursor" # [] #Option "force_pci_mode" # [] #Option "dma_mode" # #Option "agp_mode" # #Option "agp_size" # #Option "local_textures" # [] #Option "buffer_size" # #Option "tv_out" # [] #Option "tv_standard" # #Option "mmio_cache" # [] #Option "test_mmio_cache" # [] #Option "panel_display" # [] #Option "reference_clock" # #Option "shadow_fb" # [] #Option "sw_cursor" # [] #Option "AccelMethod" # #Option "RenderAccel" # [] Identifier "Card0" Driver "mach64" VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc" BoardName "Rage XL" BusID "PCI:7:1:0" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card0" Monitor "Monitor0" SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 1 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 4 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 8 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 15 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 16 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection =========== end snippage =============== -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD