Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

[Dale]

Mick wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 May 2010 21:21:25 Dale wrote:
>
>> Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Dale<rdalek1967@×××××.com
>>> <mailto:rdalek1967@×××××.com>>  wrote:
>>>
>
>>>      Have you tried this:
>>>
>>>      emerge -1a $(qlist -I -C x11-drivers/)
>>>
>>>      I have upgraded my kernel before without rebuilding these but they
>>>      are small and only take a few minutes.  Your mileage may vary.
>>>
>>>      The mouse drivers should be in that list.  If not, then something
>>>      is missing in your set up.
>>>
>
>>> As I think I explained, I have re-emerged *everything* installed that
>>> had "x11" or "xorg" in its name.  And the mouse driver was definitely
>>> there.
>>>
>> That usually works so I'm clueless.  I assume the mouse works somewhere
>> else?  I think you mentioned it working somewhere so I'm out of ideas.
>>
>
> Sorry to persist, but the drivers usually have "xf86-*" in their name not
> "x11" or "xorg", e.g. xf86-input-evdev.
>
> (The category of those packages is of course x11-drivers/ ; i.e. x11-
> drivers/xf86-input-evdev)
>
> Other than that could it be a udev issue and some permanent rule for a USB
> type of mouse, which you should remove and restart udev?  Don't know, just an
> idea.
>

That's what I was thinking.  I get this list using part of the command I 
posted earlier:

[IP-] [  ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.22:0
[IP-] [  ] x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.3.2:0
[IP-] [  ] x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard-1.4.0:0
[IP-] [  ] x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse-1.5.0:0
[IP-] [  ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv-2.1.17:0

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.

Other than this, back to clueless.

Dale

:-)  :-)