[gentoo-user] xorg-server upgrade

[john]

Hello,
	After updating my machine which included upgrading
	xorg-server-1.7.6. I was left with a none working mouse and
	keyboard. After an hour or so of checking I decided to
	re-emerge xorg-server again to discover a message to rebuild
	x11-drivers. I rebuilt x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev and mouse
	and keyboard worked again.

	Question 1
	Should x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev be rebuilt automatically
	after xorg-server upgrade? 

	Linux/Gentoo appaers to be moving away from xorg.conf and
	towards hal/policices. When using proprietary graphics
	drivers you also need xorg.conf.

	Question 2
	Is it possible to use proprietary ati-drivers and
	nvidia-drivers wthout having to use xorg.conf. Can this
	be done through hal and will this change in the future?

	I have tried using x11 radeon driver with built in kernel
	direct rendering. The performance of this was relatively poor.
	Stellarium would not work, a few games would barely
	function. ati-drivers-8.7.2 works well with xorg-server-1.7.6
	and cured all these issues but this required unmasking hard
	masked package.

	Question 3
	Sould I expect x11 radeon driver with built in kernel dri to be
	as good as fglrx? Direct rendering was running (glxinfo).

Thanks. Hope this is clear
--------------
John D Maunder
john@×××××××××××××××××××.uk