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 1PthiT-00022x-Qx for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 14:35:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 34874E0539; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 14:33:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3410E0539 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 14:33:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyb42 with SMTP id 42so4452377wyb.40 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 06:33:56 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=mx3pf7hBo2Eh5ibFn3E+qio8zd0gR90xoNbLm+QBA+w=; b=v0tg6AKE+C57xdg655AzQCKWUjOEfS3INX0ut6REQvJeIvL52BdOdwn43khBoxfmPy U/T5fDTni1j+SnlvlSQyDvCu9i1/7eSFWfLUxqm8SHnQVjQTnGECRJYJIeUBdUKyRsxf NFebTct5JSfec4NdLxMb6P/NvACrQi936lPEI= 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 :cc:content-type; b=IvYx3qVrEKD9WkQfacwe5HZ7fkn+1qa57RR18NcXr0C2/UoVQpc//BnyX26VvpaZuW aU2xJ9JLdvZud8pt6OqCtlNKOlVBwzS15ECUUdfZje4qeGtoKVPm5PV8oWpAi0RMO0uF b7Me6gsN0atIrtUL48rg585scL8VU3J4rwB/U= 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 10.216.1.145 with SMTP id 17mr3939360wed.50.1298817235798; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 06:33:55 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.216.52.134 with HTTP; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 06:33:55 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <201102260838.10279.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> References: <201102260838.10279.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 06:33:55 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-drivers for mouse and keyboard confusion From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: Mick Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: da4a12809e84ceec3fcd67e3c08b57ce On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 12:38 AM, Mick wrote: > I have unmerged x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse and x11-drivers/xf86-input- > keyboard and also removed mouse and keyboard from my /etc/make.conf, which now > only contains: > > INPUT_DEVICES="synaptics evdev" > > > However, portage seems to want to pull in x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse and > x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard: Hi Mick, I took another look here. It seems that for Virtualbox that xf86-input-virtualbox is pulling in xf86-input-mouse. Not sure if that's a bug in the ebuild or whether it's really required. I haven't spotted any settable flags that seem to effect it. (Haven't looked very hard.) Anyway, I'm using evdev for X, like you, and like you I'm getting the old mouse driver for apparently other reasons. I'm not getting keyboard but you should be able to use the commands below to determine why that's happening on your system. - Mark mark@c2stable ~ $ equery depends xf86-input-mouse [ Searching for packages depending on xf86-input-mouse... ] x11-base/xorg-drivers-1.9 (input_devices_mouse? x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse) x11-drivers/xf86-input-virtualbox-4.0.4 (x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse) mark@c2stable ~ $ mark@c2stable ~ $ emerge --tree -pe xorg-drivers | grep mouse mark@c2stable ~ $ emerge --tree -pe xf86-input-virtualbox | grep mouse [ebuild R ] x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse-1.6.0 <<<------------------------------------------- [nomerge ] x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse-1.6.0 mark@c2stable ~ $ mark@c2stable ~ $ emerge --tree -pe xf86-input-virtualbox These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ~] x11-drivers/xf86-input-virtualbox-4.0.4 [nomerge ] dev-perl/DBD-mysql-4.01.7 [nomerge ] virtual/mysql-5.1 [ebuild R ] dev-db/mysql-5.1.51 [nomerge ] x11-drivers/xf86-input-virtualbox-4.0.4 [nomerge ] dev-util/kbuild-0.1.5-r1 [nomerge ] dev-vcs/subversion-1.6.15 [nomerge ] virtual/jdk-1.6.0 [ebuild R ] dev-java/icedtea6-bin-1.9.7 [nomerge ] dev-vcs/subversion-1.6.15 [nomerge ] kde-base/kdelibs-4.4.5-r2 [nomerge ] sys-auth/polkit-kde-0.95.1-r1 [nomerge ] sys-auth/polkit-qt-0.96.1 [nomerge ] sys-auth/polkit-0.99-r1 [ebuild R ] gnome-extra/polkit-gnome-0.99 [ebuild R ] kde-base/khelpcenter-4.4.5 [nomerge ] x11-drivers/xf86-input-virtualbox-4.0.4 [nomerge ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.9.4 [nomerge ] x11-base/xorg-drivers-1.9 [nomerge ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-270.18 [ebuild R ] media-video/nvidia-settings-260.19.29 [ebuild R ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-fbdev-0.4.2 [ebuild R ] x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.6.0 [ebuild R ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-vmware-11.0.3 [ebuild R ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa-2.3.0 [nomerge ] gnome-extra/polkit-gnome-0.99 [nomerge ] sys-auth/polkit-0.99-r1 [nomerge ] sys-libs/pam-1.1.3 [nomerge ] sys-auth/pambase-20101024 [ebuild R ] sys-auth/consolekit-0.4.3 [ebuild R ] sys-auth/polkit-kde-0.95.1-r1 [nomerge ] media-video/nvidia-settings-260.19.29 [ebuild R #] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-270.18 [ebuild R ] dev-util/kbuild-0.1.5-r1 [ebuild R ] dev-vcs/subversion-1.6.15 [ebuild R ] kde-base/kwalletd-4.4.5 [ebuild R ] kde-base/kdelibs-4.4.5-r2 [ebuild R ] sys-auth/polkit-qt-0.96.1 [ebuild R ] sys-auth/polkit-0.99-r1 [nomerge ] x11-drivers/xf86-input-virtualbox-4.0.4 [ebuild R ] x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse-1.6.0 <<<------------------------------------------- mark@c2stable ~ $ emerge -pe xf86-input-virtualbox These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] sys-libs/zlib-1.2.3-r1 [ebuild R ] virtual/libintl-0 [ebuild R ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa-2.3.0 [ebuild R ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-vmware-11.0.3 [ebuild R ] x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.6.0 [ebuild R ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-fbdev-0.4.2 [ebuild R ] x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse-1.6.0 <<<------------------------------------------- [ebuild R ] sys-auth/polkit-0.99-r1 [ebuild R ] sys-auth/polkit-qt-0.96.1 [ebuild R ] sys-auth/consolekit-0.4.3 [ebuild R ] gnome-extra/polkit-gnome-0.99 [ebuild R ] kde-base/kdelibs-4.4.5-r2 [ebuild R ] sys-auth/polkit-kde-0.95.1-r1 [ebuild R ] kde-base/kwalletd-4.4.5 [ebuild R ] kde-base/khelpcenter-4.4.5 [ebuild R ] dev-vcs/subversion-1.6.15 [ebuild R ] dev-util/kbuild-0.1.5-r1 [ebuild R ~] x11-drivers/xf86-input-virtualbox-4.0.4 [ebuild R #] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-270.18 [ebuild R ] media-video/nvidia-settings-260.19.29 mark@c2stable ~ $