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From: Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:03:44
Message-Id: 9acccfe50907092003s29c228ei832b7f949b797184@mail.gmail.com
1 I had tried holding back on xorg-server 1.5, but somewhere in May at
2 least one package got past my version limits and X broke. Rather than
3 to try to revert, I thought surely by now, X would be fixed. Sigh.
4
5 In another thread, after spending 2 months without a working X server,
6 I got KDM to start. But without the mouse and keyboard.
7 The nice folks who got me that far warned and comisserated thus:
8
9 On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 7:26 PM, James<wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote:
10 > Neil Bothwick <neil <at> digimed.co.uk> writes:
11 >
12 >
13 >> > annd this mailing list's archive should be helpful, as there have been
14 >> > probably dozens of threads about that same problem. :)
15 >
16 >> The elog message from the xorg-server emerge also warns about updating
17 >> drivers.
18 >
19 >> emerge --oneshot $(qlist -I x11-drivers)
20 >
21 >
22 > Yep,
23 > seem my recent
24 > saga.
25 >
26 >
27 > 'emerge -e1 world' did the trick
28 > after dropping back to 1.5.3-r7 on xorg-server
29 > and 8.593 on ati-drivers....
30 >
31 > see bug 276953 as gcc-4.3.2 killed outgoing mail
32 > on seamonkey.....too several days to recover.....
33 >
34 >
35 > ymmv,
36 >
37 >
38 >
39
40 Okay, I was hoping for variable mileage, but maybe no dice.
41 I printed and read the upgrade guide
42 I recompiled all drivers.
43 I tried an empty xorg.conf. No dice.
44 I put together an xorg.conf by minimal changes. No dice.
45
46 The actual symptoms are that touching the keyboard causes a continuous
47 unending stream of garbage characters.
48 The mouse can move that outlined "x" (very very jumpy) until KDM gets
49 displayed and is ignored after that.
50
51 I guess I give up. My choices are to install Ubuntu, or revert
52 gentoo. Ubuntu will be a pain because of all the config stuff I'll
53 have to do to get this thing tweaked again as I like it. And it may
54 fail in the same way, but it's easier to try older versions of Ubuntu
55 than recompile all of gentoo (that's what -el does, right?) and
56 possibly repeat. I have spare partitions that allow me to do this
57 fairly safely.
58
59 ================ CUT HERE ==================
60 # This config file is modified from the results of "Xorg -configure"
61 on 9 July 2009 on host treat.
62 # Added this to prevent inputless instances (usually involving bugs in
63 the config)
64 Section "ServerFlags"
65 Option "AllowEmptyInput" "false"
66 EndSection
67
68 Section "ServerLayout"
69 Identifier "X.org Configured"
70 Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
71 #InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
72 #InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
73 InputDevice "evdev"
74 EndSection
75
76 Section "Files"
77 ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
78 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
79 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
80 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/OTF"
81 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
82 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
83 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
84 EndSection
85
86 Section "Module"
87 Load "dbe"
88 Load "extmod"
89 Load "xtrap"
90 Load "record"
91 EndSection
92
93 # Added per Xorg 1.5 Update Guide
94 Section "InputDevice"
95 Identifier "evdev"
96 Driver "evdev"
97 Option "GrabDevice" "False"
98 EndSection
99
100 ZZ
101 Section "Monitor"
102 # Uncommented DisplaySize
103 DisplaySize 410 310 # mm
104 Identifier "Monitor0"
105 VendorName "WDE"
106 ModelName "LCM-20v5"
107 HorizSync 30.0 - 82.0
108 VertRefresh 56.0 - 76.0
109 Option "DPMS"
110 EndSection
111
112 Section "Device"
113 ### Available Driver options are:-
114 ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
115 ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
116 ### [arg]: arg optional
117 #Option "probe_sparse" # [<bool>]
118 #Option "accel" # [<bool>]
119 #Option "crt_display" # [<bool>]
120 #Option "composite_sync" # [<bool>]
121 #Option "hw_cursor" # [<bool>]
122 #Option "force_pci_mode" # [<bool>]
123 #Option "dma_mode" # <str>
124 #Option "agp_mode" # <i>
125 #Option "agp_size" # <i>
126 #Option "local_textures" # [<bool>]
127 #Option "buffer_size" # <i>
128 #Option "tv_out" # [<bool>]
129 #Option "tv_standard" # <str>
130 #Option "mmio_cache" # [<bool>]
131 #Option "test_mmio_cache" # [<bool>]
132 #Option "panel_display" # [<bool>]
133 #Option "reference_clock" # <freq>
134 #Option "shadow_fb" # [<bool>]
135 #Option "sw_cursor" # [<bool>]
136 #Option "AccelMethod" # <str>
137 #Option "RenderAccel" # [<bool>]
138 Identifier "Card0"
139 Driver "mach64"
140 VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
141 BoardName "Rage XL"
142 BusID "PCI:7:1:0"
143 EndSection
144
145 Section "Screen"
146 Identifier "Screen0"
147 Device "Card0"
148 Monitor "Monitor0"
149 SubSection "Display"
150 Viewport 0 0
151 Depth 1
152 EndSubSection
153 SubSection "Display"
154 Viewport 0 0
155 Depth 4
156 EndSubSection
157 SubSection "Display"
158 Viewport 0 0
159 Depth 8
160 EndSubSection
161 SubSection "Display"
162 Viewport 0 0
163 Depth 15
164 EndSubSection
165 SubSection "Display"
166 Viewport 0 0
167 Depth 16
168 EndSubSection
169 SubSection "Display"
170 Viewport 0 0
171 Depth 24
172 EndSubSection
173 EndSection
174 =========== end snippage ===============
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179 Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
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185 Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Replies

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[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes Keith Dart <keith@×××××××××.biz>
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de>