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 1MPBTx-0000Pi-7U for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:29:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 62459E04B9; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:29:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mta-1.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.7.72]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33D8DE04B9 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:29:18 +0000 (UTC) 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-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: INLINE Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=us-ascii Received: from ironport-out-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.5.40]) by mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008)) with ESMTP id <0KMK00HPZ4WTEKA0@mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:29:17 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.42,377,1243807200"; d="scan'208";a="18563276" Received: from relay-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (HELO relay.rwth-aachen.de) ([134.130.7.75]) by ironport-in-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de with ESMTP; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:29:17 +0200 Received: from numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (numa-i.igpm.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.161.252]) by relay.rwth-aachen.de (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/1) with ESMTP id n6A8THh5020676 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:29:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: by numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix, from userid 230) id D8B39107319; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:29:20 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:29:20 +0200 (CEST) From: Helmut Jarausch Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-reply-to: <9acccfe50907092003s29c228ei832b7f949b797184@mail.gmail.com> Message-id: References: <9acccfe50907092003s29c228ei832b7f949b797184@mail.gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 0f711b5a-c964-4488-87e0-7197f34b4df6 X-Archives-Hash: 36fa153cbb49e044b2405e002f8fbca3 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 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. Good luck, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany