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On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Wolfgang Liebich wrote: |
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>> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 09:35:11AM -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: |
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>>> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 2:58 AM, Wolfgang Liebich |
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>>> <Wolfgang.Liebich@×××××××.com> wrote: |
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>>>> Furthermore yesterday I had a total lockup when I came to work at the |
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>>>> morning --- could not login at kdm, kdm would ignore all keyboard |
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>>>> input etc. I had to do a hard restart with the "Magic SysRQ" key |
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>>>> (remount ro, hard reboot). |
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>>> Do you have evdev installed? Without it, you probably won't have any |
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>>> keyboard or mouse. Recent xorg made dramatic changes to the way |
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>>> hardware is detected/configured by using HAL and evdev. xorg.conf is |
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>>> basically unused now when it comes to configuring hardware. I don't |
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>>> even have keyboard or mouse, or video modelines or anything like that |
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>>> in mine. Search the list archives or the gentoo web forums, there are |
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>>> many many people who had the same issues (assuming it's the cause of |
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>>> yours). |
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>> Evdev is installed, but I configured the kbd driver (I have a MS |
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>> Natural Keyboard, btw --- what's the best driver for that keyboard?). |
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>> I still have an xorg.conf (and I'm not very inclined to change it as |
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>> long as it works :-). |
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>> Furthermore -- after the reboot everything worked again as before. It |
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>> seems to have been some fluke, but I want to know where it comes from. |
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>> TIA, |
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>> Wolfgang |
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> Someone else like me. I still have my xorg.conf and want to keep it |
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> too. I don't have evdev installed but from the way it sounds, me and |
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> you may have to change in the future, maybe near future. |
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> I'm sort of wondering what pulls in evdev anyway? I got a fully running |
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> KDE and this is my new install. Nothing pulled it in here. I may be |
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> missing a USE flag or something. |
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> Let's hope this works for a while longer yet. ;-) |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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You need "evdev" in your INPUT_DEVICES variable (mine lives in |
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make.conf). In my case I have: |
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INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse joystick evdev" |
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and portage automagically built those packages. |
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