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Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:10:14 -0700
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes
From: "Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:18 AM, Keith Dart<keith@dartworks.biz> wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 20:03:36 -0700
> "Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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. =A0Rather than
>> to try to revert, I thought surely by now, X would be fixed. =A0Sigh.
>
> Set the "hal" use flag and emerge x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev. See if
> that helps you.
Just the opposite. "hal" has been in effect for a while here. My
newest attempt was to "-hal" on xorg-server, and BEOHOLD! there's a
working X and KDE. "hal" remains in effect on everything else and
hald is in the default runlevel (not boot).
++kevin
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD