Re: [gentoo-user] help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Valmor de Almeida <val.gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I had a working laptop with xorg 1.7 using hal; including usb mouse
> (left hand swapped buttons), synaptics for a mouse pad, hotplug
> monitors in a virtual screen, etc. For this to work I had a
> hand-configured xorg.conf file and additional hal policy
> configurations.
>
> I have just updated xorg to 1.9.4 with USE -hal and removed hal in
> this order (also needed to remove hal from the default run level).  I
> tried startx using the existing xorg.conf and X does not start
> correctly, I have no mouse and a frozen screen (no keyboard) with the
> arrow cursor placed in the middle of the screen. I also tried to start
> X without an xorg.conf; same problem.
>
> Here are the outputs of some commands:
>
> emerge --info
> Portage 2.1.9.25 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.4.4,
> glibc-2.11.2.-r3, 2.6.36-gentoo-r5 x86_64)
>
> emerge -pv --newuse --update --tree --with-bdeps=y world
> Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 kB
>
> emerge --depclean -vp
> Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to
> the following required packages not being installed:
>
>   sys-apps/hal  pulled in by:
>       x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics-1.2.1
>
> In make.conf  I have:
>
>  USE="-hal ...."
>
>  INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics"
>  VIDEO_CARDS="intel"
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> --
> Valmor

I'm guessing that you might need to use the older keyboard and mouse
drivers instead of evdev. Just a guess though.

- Mark