[gentoo-amd64] Xorg and usb keyboard/mouse and some screen flickering :(

[Marko Obrovac]

Hello people,

I own an MSI laptop (GX-700) and today I bought an external monitor (LG
W2443) and a wireless keyboard/mouse combo (Trust) for it. However, I'm
having problems with all of them :(

Firstly the keyboard/mouse issue. A few months ago I bought a wireless mouse
(also a Trust one), just plugged it in, started the system and everything
worked nicely. Now, I can't get the new keyboard/mouse combo to work. I'm
sure they're OK, because in the grub menu I can use the new keyboard to
select/edit/etc the boot stuff (i.e. I'm sure BIOS recognises it). However,
I can't seem to get it to work in Xorg... The thing that strikes me the most
is that the "old" mouse worked without a problem. Any hints?

Secondly, the new monitor. I can see constant flickering on it. I'm sure
it's not the monitor's fault since I had similar issues with others as well
- that is to say, I'm quite convinced it has something to do with my graphic
card (nvidia geforce 8600m gt).

I'm pasting the xorg.conf and /etc/make.conf files here as I'm not sure the
mailing list supports attachments.

Any help is welcome,
Marko


XORG.CONF
=========
# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings:  version 1.0  (root@moveable-basket)  Wed Oct 21 23:07:18
Local time zone must be set--see zic manual page 2009

#Section "InputDevice"
#    Identifier  "Mouse0"
#    #Driver      "synaptics"
#    Driver      "mouse"
#    Option        "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
#    #Option        "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
#    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
#EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"

    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0"
    Option         "BackingStore" "True"
    #    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    ModulePath      "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/OTF"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"

    #Load  "dbe"
    #Load  "dri"
    #Load  "dri2"
    #Load  "extmod"
    Load           "glx"
    #Load  "record"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option         "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from data in "/etc/conf.d/gpm"
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "evdev"
    Option         "Protocol"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    #Driver      "kbd"
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "evdev"
    #Option         "CoreKeyboard"
    Option         "XkbRules" "xrrg"
    Option         "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "us,hr"
    #Option      "Device" "/dev/input/event6"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "LG W2443"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 83.0
    VertRefresh     56.0 - 75.0
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Card0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "nVidia Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce 8600M GT"
    Option         "RenderAccel" "True"
    BusID          "PCI:8:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce 8600M GT"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "TwinView" "0"
    Option         "metamodes" "CRT: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
    SubSection     "Display"
                Modes      "1920x1080"
        Depth       16
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
                Modes      "1920x1080"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

#Section "Extensions"
#    Option         "Composite" "Enable"
#EndSection



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