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

[Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>]

On 02/19/2011 08:24 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@arcor.de>  wrote:
>> On 02/19/2011 07:44 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>> 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.
>>
>> Since you removed HAL support, did you enable udev support?
>
> I am not sure how to do this. Is it a matter of adding a USE="udev" in
> /etc/make.conf ?

It's a USE flag of xorg-server.


>>> 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
>>
>> Check your package.use.  Also try to unmerge xf86-input-synaptics and then
>> emerge it again.
>
> Another check on my system shows:
>
> emerge --search xf86-input-synaptics
>   Latest version available: 1.3.0
>   Latest version installed: 1.2.1
>
> emerge --search xf86-input-evdev
>   Latest version available: 2.6.0
>   Latest version available: 2.4.0
>
> I don't emerge them directly. They are pulled in by xorg-drivers which
> I have re-emerged several times.

xorg-drivers doesn't install files.  It's only a meta-package.


> Don't know why the latest versions of
> the drivers don't get installed. Is this the way to force the update
> without recording into world:
>
>   emerge --oneshot xf86-input-synaptics xf86-input-evdev

The best way it to emerge -auDN world, like always.