From: Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mdev: Has anybody managed to get the keyboard and mouse to work under X?
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:24:27 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA2qdGULSqbOHqk8wnMxvscCSq=mgMY4NuYSA+3kjnqkg0BpGA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120315011616.GD32691@waltdnes.org>
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On Mar 15, 2012 8:19 AM, "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 03:20:48PM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote
> > Hi, Gentoo.
> >
> > As I've said a few times in the current threads, the only thing
> > preventing me from moving fully onto mdev is not having a working
> > keyboard and mouse (evdev??) under X.
> >
> > Has anybody else tried this, and if so, what results have you had?
>
> I begin my USE variable with "-*" and add only the necessary stuff.
> If you want to run X without udev, then compile xorg-server with
> "USE=-udev". I don't have evdev installed at all. I've run X without
> an xorg.conf. The only reason I have an xorg.conf now is to allow
> xrandr to force a weird 1536x864 video mode on my 1920x1080 monitor when
> watching one specific website.
>
Of course, needless to say (but I'll say it anyway), when you re-emerge X,
you should re-emerge X drivers.
Rgds,
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-14 15:20 [gentoo-user] mdev: Has anybody managed to get the keyboard and mouse to work under X? Alan Mackenzie
2012-03-14 21:14 ` Mike Edenfield
2012-03-15 0:21 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-15 1:16 ` Walter Dnes
2012-03-15 1:24 ` Pandu Poluan [this message]
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