Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com> wrote:

> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Mick <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> 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.
>
>
Oh, and one more thing showed up last night.  I reemerged udev, and noticed
that the ebuild printed a message to the effect that if it doesn't work, I
should try emerging hal first.  Leaving aside the non-effective language, I
tried that and although hal is installed, I can  no longer build it.  This
may turn out to be the most important thing. It turns out I can't compile
the latest wireshark either.  Maybe something is hosed deep down.  It may be
time to go down the "emptytree" road again, but it took 2 weeks last time,
and was a major PITA.


-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD