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On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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>> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com <mailto: |
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>> michaelkintzios@×××××.com>> wrote: |
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>> On Wednesday 12 May 2010 21:21:25 Dale wrote: |
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>> > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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>> <snippage> |
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> > > As I think I explained, I have re-emerged *everything* |
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>> installed that |
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>> > > had "x11" or "xorg" in its name. And the mouse driver was |
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>> definitely |
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>> > > there. |
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>> > That usually works so I'm clueless. I assume the mouse works |
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>> somewhere |
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>> > else? I think you mentioned it working somewhere so I'm out of |
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>> ideas. |
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>> Sorry to persist, but the drivers usually have "xf86-*" in their |
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>> name not |
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>> "x11" or "xorg", e.g. xf86-input-evdev. |
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>> (The category of those packages is of course x11-drivers/ ; i.e. x11- |
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>> drivers/xf86-input-evdev) |
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Yes, so I picked up all of those driver files on account of the x11. |
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> Other than that could it be a udev issue and some permanent rule |
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>> for a USB |
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>> type of mouse, which you should remove and restart udev? Don't |
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>> know, just an |
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>> idea. |
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There's not much there, and none of it is anything I put there. The files |
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treat rules.d # wc * |
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3 12 174 10-virtualbox.rules |
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1 3 44 30-svgalib.rules |
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149 691 8415 55-hpmud.rules |
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13 41 495 56-hpmud_support.rules |
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26 54 1104 64-device-mapper.rules |
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1062 5588 136720 70-libgphoto2.rules |
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23 105 1799 70-persistent-cd.rules |
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10 55 490 70-persistent-net.rules |
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2 9 83 90-hal.rules |
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1289 6558 149324 total |
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And the word "mouse" does not appear in any of them. I'll do as you suggest |
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-- drop then reemerge udev. |
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> I have been known to back that directory up, delete all the rules and then |
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> re-emerge udev. Sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn't. If you have |
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> rules you made yourself, do back them up first. |
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> Of course you may be able to check in the rule files and see if there is |
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> something obviously wrong too. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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