SOLVED: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo decapitated

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:25 AM, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote:

> On 05/16/2010 08:43 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>
>> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com<mailto:
>> michaelkintzios@×××××.com>> wrote:
>>
>>    On Sunday 16 May 2010 02:24:10 Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>>     > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com<mailto:
>> rdalek1967@×××××.com>> wrote:
>>     > > Mine has xf86-* drivers as well.  OP, do you have your setting in
>>     > > make.conf correctly?  Mine looks like this:
>>     > >
>>     > > INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev"
>>     > >
>>     > > I do NOT use hal so your settings may need to be different but you
>> do
>>     > > need the line tho.
>>     > >
>>     > > I have INPUT_DEVICES="evdev", and adding either of the others
>> makes X go
>>     >
>>     > back to not starting at all.
>>
>>    That's right, you will also then need to install the appropriate x86
>> driver;
>>    e.g. x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse
>>
>>
>> You mean like this, the way it's always been?  Or is there something more
>> specific I have to do?
>> treat src # eix x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse
>> [I] x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse
>>      Available versions:  1.5.0{tbz2} {debug}
>>      Installed versions:  1.5.0{tbz2}(09:38:05 PM 05/11/2010)(-debug)
>>      Homepage: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/
>>      Description:         X.Org driver for mouse input devices
>>
>> treat src #
>>
>> BTW, the most recent boot started X without the mouse working, but these
>> two lines appear in /var/log/Xorg.0.log
>>
>> line 44-47: (==) |-->Input Device "evdev"
>>             (==) |-->Input Device "<default keyboard>"
>>             (==) The core pointer device wasn't specified explicitly in
>> the layout.
>>                     Using the first mouse device.
>>
>>
>> line 457:   (==) MACH64(0): Silken mouse enabled
>>
>> (MACH64 is my video card)
>> (My mouse is a Microsoft optical with a USB cord that I use with a PS/2
>> adapter and a KVM switch, which works with Live disks. I have no idea what
>> Silken is)
>>
>>
>> These are the only lines with the word "mouse" in them.
>>
>
> I just did the experiment of building xorg-server with the hal useflag
> *off*, and
> found that neither keyboard nor mouse worked until I restored the two
> InputDevice
> sections that I commented out when I switched to evdev+hal:
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
>    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
>    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
>    Option         "AIGLX"        "false"
>    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"      <------ restored these two
> lines
>    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"  <-------
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
>    Driver         "evdev"
>    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/event3"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>    Identifier     "Mouse0"
>    Driver         "evdev"
>    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
>    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/event4"
>    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "True"
> EndSection
>
> Note those "Device" entries.  I found those devices in /dev/input/by-path/:
>
> $ls -l /dev/input/by-path/
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   9 2010-05-16 10:40
> platform-i8042-serio-0-event-kbd -> ../event3
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   9 2010-05-16 10:40
> platform-i8042-serio-1-event-mouse -> ../event4
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   9 2010-05-16 10:40 platform-i8042-serio-1-mouse ->
> ../mouse0
>
> "evdev" uses "event-devices", hence the name.  I don't use the mouse0
> device at
> all but I'm guessing I would if I used the "mouse" driver instead of
> "evdev".
>
> Starting with xorg-server-1.8 the mouse and keyboard Inputdevice sections
> are no
> longer needed (not sure about synaptics, though), because the server uses
> evdev
> automatically (no manual configuration like cited above) and ignores hal
> completely.
>
> Using the evdev driver alone, and xorg-server built without hal, I get
> this:
>
> (**) Option "CorePointer"
> (**) Mouse0: always reports core events
> (**) Mouse0: Device: "/dev/input/event4"
> (II) Mouse0: Found 9 mouse buttons
> (II) Mouse0: Found scroll wheel(s)
> (II) Mouse0: Found relative axes
> (II) Mouse0: Found x and y relative axes
> (II) Mouse0: Configuring as mouse
> (**) Option "Emulate3Buttons" "True"
> (II) Mouse0: Forcing middle mouse button emulation on.
> (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse0" (type: MOUSE)
> (**) Mouse0: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1
> (**) Mouse0: (accel) acceleration profile 0
> (II) Mouse0: initialized for relative axes.
> (**) Option "CoreKeyboard"
> (**) Keyboard0: always reports core events
> (**) Keyboard0: Device: "/dev/input/event3"
> (II) Keyboard0: Found keys
> (II) Keyboard0: Configuring as keyboard
> (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Keyboard0" (type: KEYBOARD)
> (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
> (**) Option "xkb_model" "evdev"
> (**) Option "xkb_layout" "us"
>
>
>
>
GENIUS.  It worked!   That which has been dead for 2 weeks is risen!

Many thanks.

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD