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 1MPD0Z-0006zf-9P for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:07:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C2EA9E04F2; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:07:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f191.google.com (mail-yx0-f191.google.com [209.85.210.191]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7BC6E04F2 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:07:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxe29 with SMTP id 29so1223558yxe.32 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:07:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=hR57EgyyfuT3dtR7mT0pckvL7q4DYEyrZyC5KLf7UOQ=; b=VTVKtN97o1fEmaVgrkvUFf7iiMUV8FShBgEUoVbGUke8To+zsel5pN0lIbALw3U6Zx XrhRIMsIgzxBbGhM1H0jc0aGiaLlFX4bcGHo2Tyy95zT75nbUqNIcMZbki4GYKP/XaEo 40s1Zl+YK2/qRJYDo+SejXy/KNkt029+t5uFo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=JS2REXVQtzcBUGSeKVeGWDAy1QSez2QliWGFKrPOAkcoJzCFKSArp8bhUez+rxtYLM +w+yW7hDQWC9/gGcufFjM5ST4xMa2/D/C6xo2HhO3Cp6vF6sS04ZmIzanRrmq1eRT5wF bABGi7Oe9XEkvsLJANM8OX5CL49jOTFAvIKa4= 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 10.90.114.20 with SMTP id m20mr1572387agc.3.1247220428414; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:07:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090710012451.3649f112@dartworks.biz> References: <9acccfe50907092003s29c228ei832b7f949b797184@mail.gmail.com> <20090710011835.5d406a1e@dartworks.biz> <20090710012451.3649f112@dartworks.biz> Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:07:08 -0700 Message-ID: <9acccfe50907100307g29d295c8i444a829573e411a1@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [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: 1fcea258-26d2-42d2-be5f-0aab16fba1db X-Archives-Hash: 51d24fea270849ca92bea0469f5f47e4 On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:24 AM, Keith Dart wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:18:35 -0700 > Keith Dart wrote: > >> Set the "hal" use flag and emerge x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev. See if >> that helps you. > > Also make sure you have this in your make.conf: > > > INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" > > Remove mouse and keyboard sections in your xorg.conf file also. > > The evdev and HAL are supposed to make X much simpler to set up and > use. ;-) For me, at least, it was impossible use. Useless is more like it. I am using evdev, but not compiling xorg for HAL. I'm not sure how that works out in detail, because hald is still running and the "hal" use flag is in use everywhere but xorg-server. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD