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 1MPIGI-0007ZD-Bh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:43:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B1584E0371; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:43:44 +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 93128E0371 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:43:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk20 with SMTP id 20so4590506gxk.10 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:43:44 -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=12IO7HiAK0NjTTFIXizhGXVlKOUMftgOs9rT0Pj8vv0=; b=tHP/vJfsbM+iQ3+UGvXCCymZxnye7RW08DPF3CJSFtc+JS9yOJu3h+GMEyWYXOdG2o JyMD/MkMmXnR3xFmm8w3waYIUK4OdloKMYRBh+ud2Szytf73DJrLILgONTM+fEWlRM40 e2tS6qsmMk6j+j/bRuzcP83KHEIU6GbFDvw00= 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=tZ6N4LzeGCS+5RntEBjExf7HaVbIdDOBYO+5vBuvt9fZdG+S476Otm137y04kq35UT J/DYbkGd4RliMpiy/l0/Ns21CfXfZE8VDYz9TfIK5hPWcL2S5HuBoQRhiSrwwfo6/KBM PMnhZ09vB4Vp9ciD9aHU2jNthBlYjRoFj4Fbc= 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 10.90.93.8 with SMTP id q8mr1764647agb.118.1247240624278; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:43:44 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090710115549.GA3685@ca.inter.net> References: <9acccfe50907092003s29c228ei832b7f949b797184@mail.gmail.com> <4A56BAC6.3020400@gmail.com> <9acccfe50907092152o1c691151x9166ff3d4cce2083@mail.gmail.com> <9acccfe50907092233n6bddc4c9kd1e5e13b0327b110@mail.gmail.com> <20090710115549.GA3685@ca.inter.net> Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:43:44 -0700 Message-ID: <9acccfe50907100843x59951790pf5c12be3c89f69be@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 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: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 750b3a16-2de3-4acb-bf8a-7c7b31bdfedd X-Archives-Hash: 57f3f22d1b797c72f100678ec4c4d2de On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Philip Webb wrote: > 090709 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Dale wrote: >>>> If all else fails: >>>> x11-base/xorg-server =A0-hal >>> Is there any other advice? >> A new HAL made no difference. =A0Sigh. > > I ran into this twice, first on my frontline machine, then on the stand-b= y. > The solution was 'USE=3D"-hal" emerge xorg-server', then remerge all driv= ers. > There was a Gentoo help doc re it, which gave this as the simplest option= . > > 'evdev' is a separate matter: you need to include it in your kernel, > than you can simplify your drivers. > > HTH Evdev has been included in my kernels throughout this mess. It hasn't helped. The Gentoo doc on the upgrade was a bit scetchy about configuring HAL; now that I find that disabling HAL in xorg is the solution, I suspect that the underlying problem is HAL configuration. After all, there's nothing at all special about my mouse or keyboard. Why should we have to configure HAL manually? Since the stone ages, Linux installations have determined what keyboard we have and have set things up for us. How different can PS/2 or USB mice be? SO: if anyone succeeded with xorg and HAL, with a USA keyboard and a wheel mouse, would please tell me about their HAL config, I'd sure love to see it. ++ kevin --=20 Kevin O'Gorman, PhD