[gentoo-user] xorg-drivers for mouse and keyboard confusion

[gentoo-user] xorg-drivers for mouse and keyboard confusion

[Mick]

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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:
==============================================================
# emerge -uatDv world

These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:

Calculating dependencies

...
[nomerge      ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.9.4  USE="ipv6 nptl udev xorg -dmx -doc 
-kdrive -minimal -static-libs -tslib"  [0]
[nomerge      ]  x11-base/xorg-drivers-1.9  INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard 
mouse synaptics -acecad -aiptek -elographics -fpit -joystick -penmount -tslib 
-virtualbox -vmmouse -void -wacom" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon -apm -ark -ast -chips -
cirrus -dummy -epson -fbdev -fglrx (-geode) -glint -i128 (-i740) (-impact) -
intel -mach64 -mga -neomagic (-newport) -nouveau -nv -nvidia -r128 -rendition 
-s3 -s3virge -savage -siliconmotion -sis -sisusb (-sunbw2) (-suncg14) (-
suncg3) (-suncg6) (-sunffb) (-sunleo) (-suntcx) -tdfx -tga -trident -tseng -
v4l -vesa -via -virtualbox -vmware (-voodoo) (-xgi)"  [0]
[ebuild  N    ]   x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard-1.5.0  0 kB [0]
[ebuild  N    ]   x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse-1.6.0  0 kB [0]
==============================================================

As you can see above portage still shows keyboard and mouse as INPUT_DEVICES.    
Are these defined anywhere else other than make.conf?
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-drivers for mouse and keyboard confusion

[Jesús J. Guerrero Botella]

You could always grep for INPUT_DEVICES into /etc/portage, user -R for
recursive search.

Also, make sure there's no other statement for INPUT_DEVICES in
make.conf after the one you posted above.

-- 
Jesús Guerrero Botella

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-drivers for mouse and keyboard confusion

[Mick]

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On Saturday 26 February 2011 11:26:38 Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote:
> You could always grep for INPUT_DEVICES into /etc/portage, user -R for
> recursive search.
> 
> Also, make sure there's no other statement for INPUT_DEVICES in
> make.conf after the one you posted above.

Thanks, I checked for duplicate entries in make.conf (there aren't any) and 
nothing is shown under /etc/portage ... what now?
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-drivers for mouse and keyboard confusion

[Mark Knecht]

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 7:04 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 26 February 2011 11:26:38 Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote:
>> You could always grep for INPUT_DEVICES into /etc/portage, user -R for
>> recursive search.
>>
>> Also, make sure there's no other statement for INPUT_DEVICES in
>> make.conf after the one you posted above.
>
> Thanks, I checked for duplicate entries in make.conf (there aren't any) and
> nothing is shown under /etc/portage ... what now?
> --
> Regards,
> Mick
>

Did you double check /var/lib/portage/world to make sure they aren't
(somehow) still in there?

I don't know if you use modules-rebuild but if so have you removed
them from the list of things that you rebuild when you make a new
kernel?

If you let the system re-emerge them, make sure you're -DuN @world
clean, then emerge -C them, use --depclean to get everything out, I
bet they'll be gone.

Very strange...

Good luck,
Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-drivers for mouse and keyboard confusion

[Jesús J. Guerrero Botella]

2011/2/26 Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>:
> On Saturday 26 February 2011 11:26:38 Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote:
>> You could always grep for INPUT_DEVICES into /etc/portage, user -R for
>> recursive search.
>>
>> Also, make sure there's no other statement for INPUT_DEVICES in
>> make.conf after the one you posted above.
>
> Thanks, I checked for duplicate entries in make.conf (there aren't any) and
> nothing is shown under /etc/portage ... what now?

Can you post emerge --info?


-- 
Jesús Guerrero Botella

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-drivers for mouse and keyboard confusion

[Mick]

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On Saturday 26 February 2011 23:21:32 Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote:
> 2011/2/26 Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>:
> > On Saturday 26 February 2011 11:26:38 Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote:
> >> You could always grep for INPUT_DEVICES into /etc/portage, user -R for
> >> recursive search.
> >> 
> >> Also, make sure there's no other statement for INPUT_DEVICES in
> >> make.conf after the one you posted above.
> > 
> > Thanks, I checked for duplicate entries in make.conf (there aren't any)
> > and nothing is shown under /etc/portage ... what now?
> 
> Can you post emerge --info?

Here it is:

# emerge --info
Portage 2.1.9.25 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.4, glibc-2.11.2-
r3, 2.6.36-gentoo-r5 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.36-gentoo-r5-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-
_i7_CPU_Q_720_@_1.60GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.14
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 07:15:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     4.1_p9
dev-lang/python:     2.6.6-r1, 3.1.2-r4
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r9
dev-util/cmake:      2.8.1-r2
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.14-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.4
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.65-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.20.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc:       4.4.4-r2
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.10
sys-devel/make:      3.81-r2
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.36.1 (sys-kernel/linux-headers)
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA AdobeFlash-10.1"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=core2 -msse4 -mcx16 -msahf -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d 
/etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d 
/etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -msse4 -mcx16 -msahf -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs ccache distlocks fail-clean fixlafiles 
fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-
features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://10.10.10.5:1024/ http://gentoo.virginmedia.com/ 
http://gentoo.tiscali.nl/ http://de-mirror.org/distro/gentoo/ 
http://gentoo.mneisen.org/ http://mirror.mdfnet.se/mirror/gentoo 
http://gentoo.wheel.sk/ http://gentoo.mirror.pw.edu.pl/"
LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
LINGUAS="en_GB en"
MAKEOPTS="-j9"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --
compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --
exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/enlightenment /usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://10.10.10.5/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 amr berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo 
cdda cddb cdparanoia cdr chroot cli consolekit cracklib crypt css cups cxx 
dbus dell dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif faac fam firefox flac fortran 
fts3 gdbm gdu gif gnutls gpm hddtemp hpijs iconv imagemagick ipv6 irda jpeg 
kde lcms ldap libnotify libv4l2 live lm_sensors logrotate mad mikmod mmx 
mmxext mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib ncurses network-cron new-
hpcups nls nodrm nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf 
perl png policykit ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 quicktime readline redland 
rtmp sdl semantic-desktop session shout smime spell sqlite sse sse2 ssl ssse3 
startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd tiff truetype udev unicode usb v4l2 vaapi 
vorbis wps x264 xcb xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zip zlib" 
ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x 
ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 
trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw 
asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa 
lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm 
softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon 
authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile 
authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock 
deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers 
include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite 
setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" 
CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap 
syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 
garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle 
oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" 
INPUT_DEVICES="synaptics evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz 
cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_GB en" 
PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" 
XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface 
geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac 
delude chaos account" 
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, 
PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, 
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
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Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-drivers for mouse and keyboard confusion

[Mark Knecht]

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 12:38 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> 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
<<<-------------------------------------------
<SNIP>


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
<SNIP>
[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 ~ $

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-drivers for mouse and keyboard confusion

[Mick]

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On Sunday 27 February 2011 14:33:55 you wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 12:38 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> 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.)

Thanks Mark, I do not have virtualbox on this laptop, so the drivers are not 
being pulled in because of it.


>    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.

I checked my world file and the only x11-drivers package I have in there is 
the radeon-ucode firmware package.

Anyway, I just remerged x11-base/xorg-drivers manually (rather than as part of 
updating world) and guess what? !  It does not try to pull in these two 
drivers any more:

# emerge -1aDv xorg-drivers

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] x11-base/xorg-drivers-1.9  INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics -
acecad -aiptek -elographics -fpit -joystick -keyboard* -mouse* -penmount -
tslib -virtualbox -vmmouse -void -wacom" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon -apm -ark -ast -
chips -cirrus -dummy -epson -fbdev -fglrx (-geode) -glint -i128 (-i740) (-
impact) -intel -mach64 -mga -neomagic (-newport) -nouveau -nv -nvidia -r128 -
rendition -s3 -s3virge -savage -siliconmotion -sis -sisusb (-sunbw2) (-
suncg14) (-suncg3) (-suncg6) (-sunffb) (-sunleo) (-suntcx) -tdfx -tga -trident 
-tseng -v4l -vesa -via -virtualbox -vmware (-voodoo) (-xgi%)" 0 kB


I guess that 'emerge -uaDv world' takes the current state of x11-base/xorg-
drivers (which in the past had been merged with INPUT_DEVICES containing both 
keyboard and mouse) as a higher priority than the current state of my 
INPUT_DEVICES in /etc/make.conf?

Either way, the solution must be therefore to remerge x11-base/xorg-drivers 
every time the content of INPUT_DEVICES is changed.

Thank you all for your help.  :)
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-drivers for mouse and keyboard confusion

[Mike Gilbert]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> I guess that 'emerge -uaDv world' takes the current state of x11-base/xorg-
> drivers (which in the past had been merged with INPUT_DEVICES containing both
> keyboard and mouse) as a higher priority than the current state of my
> INPUT_DEVICES in /etc/make.conf?
>
> Either way, the solution must be therefore to remerge x11-base/xorg-drivers
> every time the content of INPUT_DEVICES is changed.
>

I suggest adding -N (--newuse) to that command, as in "emerge -uaDvN
world". This will take USE flag changes into account when deciding on
packages to (re)install.

Note that INPUT_DEVICES is really just a fancy wrapper around a set of
USE flags.