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 1MPLBS-0007YH-TV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:50:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EE777E00CC; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:50:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0B13E00CC for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:50:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6227C666B5 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:50:56 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -4.078 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.078 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.479, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Ysa0nVY8v-x5 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:50:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B5606682C for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:50:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MPLBC-0005PI-KS for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:50:42 +0000 Received: from adsl-69-234-182-209.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.182.209]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:50:42 +0000 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-182-209.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:50:42 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:50:27 -0700 Message-ID: References: <9acccfe50907092003s29c228ei832b7f949b797184@mail.gmail.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-182-209.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1pre) Gecko/20090710 Shredder/3.0b3pre In-Reply-To: Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 7cb38c68-7d1c-49fc-b506-5a8bc99d1bc1 X-Archives-Hash: cbb1b6dc812469aa54c46b00e9db28b5 On 07/10/2009 01:29 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 9 Jul, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> I had tried holding back on xorg-server 1.5, but somewhere in May at >> least one package got past my version limits and X broke. Rather than >> to try to revert, I thought surely by now, X would be fixed. Sigh. >> >> In another thread, after spending 2 months without a working X server, >> I got KDM to start. But without the mouse and keyboard. >> The nice folks who got me that far warned and comisserated thus: >> > > I had a similar problem. Finally I added hald to boot Was hald in 'default' before that? > rc-update add hald boot > > and rebooted. From now on Xorg 1.5 and now 1.6 work just fine > with hal. I wonder why this hasn't been done/checked by the > xorg-server ebuild. Interesting, I never noticed until now that I have hald in 'default' like Kevin and yet I have no problems with input devices. I'm using only USB mice but PS/2 keyboard with X+hal and only evdev, not keyboard or mouse drivers. No InputDevice sections at all in xorg.conf. I'm wondering if this could be related to APCI or BIOS somehow, which seems to be a major source of different bugs from machine-to-machine. Dunno, but it's frustrating to watch you guys have so much trouble with this problem. Kevin, I have two mice, one very non-standard and the other bog-standard as the Brits like to say. The Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse has two buttons and a wheel, and it works well under evdev except that I like to use Emulate3Buttons. My InputDevice sections are gone completely, as I mentioned, so I wrote a new conf file /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-emulate3buttons.fdi: true I just edited the system input file from /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy after studying the sytax for awhile, and it worked :o) Basically, anything you'd put in an InputDevice section of xorg.conf is transformed into the "input.x11_options" syntax above. I made another file for my non-standard mouse adding things like EmulateWheel but the syntax was identical to above.