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 1Pqrvc-0005hf-6q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:53:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7F0411C03B; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:50:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49B471C039 for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:50:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0ABE1B407B for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:50:17 +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 1kTCnrN5g5va for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:50:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A4F21B408C for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:50:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pqrsc-0000FZ-6q for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:50:06 +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 19:50:06 +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 19:50:06 +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 20:46:26 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <4D600CBF.8030300@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=UTF-8; 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: <4D600CBF.8030300@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: f8a5e91804032347c52114c77da73fd2 On 02/19/2011 08:32 PM, Dale wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 9:44 AM, 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. >> >> I'm guessing that you might need to use the older keyboard and mouse >> drivers instead of evdev. Just a guess though. > > As some already know, I removed hal a long time ago so basically you > want a set up similar to mine now. This is in my make.conf: > > INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" > > Don't forget to enable udev as Mike suggested too. I put mine in the USE > line. After all, about all hardware now uses udev to see hardware. You only need "evdev". "keyboard" and "mouse" are deprecated drivers. They have bugs that no one appears to be fixing anymore.