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From: John Jolet <john@×××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg config
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 23:42:42
Message-Id: 34A0BC66-09A2-47C7-8615-98D987AB66EE@jolet.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg config by "C. Beamer"
1 On Dec 30, 2005, at 11:40 AM, C. Beamer wrote:
2
3 > John Jolet wrote:
4 >
5 >> Okay, so i'm experimenting with the split kde ebuilds, having done a
6 >> kde-meta the last time. However, when I did that, I got all my
7 >> hardware configured and set up automatically somehow. when I just
8 >> did emerge kdebase-startkde, It won't allow me to go beyond 640x480.
9 >> So I ran xorgconfig, and now I've apparently picked the wrong mouse
10 >> (it's a usb trackball) port and nothing works. Is there a script
11 >> that will set all this for me? I really, REALLY hate mucking about
12 >> in that stupid xorg.conf file.
13 >
14 > Xorg -configure
15 >
16 yeah, did that. problem is that said it couldn't determine my
17 mouse...so I booted to the live cd and looked at what /dev/mouse was
18 symlinked to. /dev/input/mice. why that symlink didn't get created
19 here, i don't know. but I put it in and it works...now i've just got
20 to figure out how to get more than 640x480 resolution..
21 > See:
22 >
23 > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml
24 >
25 > Regards,
26 >
27 > Colleen
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