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 1QjN8Y-0002KH-91 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 03:07:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1373B21C091; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 03:07:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D10A521C083 for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 03:05:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6467E2AC042 for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 03:05:54 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.876 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.876 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=1.656, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-4, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=2.067] 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 BgsUrlmspf4o for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 03:05:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5A8F1BC0E9 for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 03:05:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QjN6Q-0000EZ-4c for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 05:05:38 +0200 Received: from 68.168.167.182 ([68.168.167.182]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 05:05:38 +0200 Received: from grant.b.edwards by 68.168.167.182 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 05:05:38 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: evdev broken? Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 03:05:26 +0000 (UTC) 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=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.168.167.182 User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1 (Linux) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 964efa977c447e6577627735724ed9e3 On 2011-07-20, Francisco Ares wrote: > Hi, All > > Recently, after blindingly emerging world, X11/Xorg stopped to accept mouse > and keyboard events. After some ways to figure out what was going on, I > found that it seems related to "evdev". > > Anybody noticed something like that? The xorg-server package (or > xorg-drivers, can't remember nor check now, because I had to use Windows >:-( ) is being built with "evdev" flag, but there is an error in the log > file about evdev could not be found, as long as "dri" and "dri2". I am using > nvidia proprietary video driver. You probably just need to re-emerge the xf86-input packages that you have installed. That happens after every update to the Xorg server, and there are probably messages in the portage log to that effect. -- Grant