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 1Pqrpb-0004qO-DR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:46:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 497DCE057F; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:44:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08760E057F for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:44:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 882331B40EF for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:44:09 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.869 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.869 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.270, BAYES_00=-2.599] 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 I57BO25ewSoy for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:44:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E105A1B4146 for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:44:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pqrmf-00055q-Fr for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:43:57 +0100 Received: from athedsl-388219.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.68.121]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:43:57 +0100 Received: from realnc by athedsl-388219.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:43:57 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 20:43:55 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: 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@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-388219.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20110126 Thunderbird/3.1.7 In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 5ecb42637584e759049a4b2a0005a0e7 On 02/19/2011 08:24 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Nikos Chantziaras 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.