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On Tuesday 30 June 2009 02:44:10 Maxim Wexler wrote: |
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> Hi group, |
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> According to 'The X Server Configuration HOWTO' |
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> "If you use alternative input devices, such as a Synaptics touchpad |
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> for a laptop, be sure to add it to INPUT_DEVICES. " |
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> So I put in make.conf INPUT_DEVICES="mouse keyboard synaptics" and did |
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> emerge -pv xorg-server. |
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> In the output after INPUT_DEVICES I saw keyboard, mouse and evdev in |
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> red and synaptics in blue with a minus sigh. So I removed keyboard and |
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> mouse from the line in make.conf. Same result. Don't know where evdev |
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> comes from; I never specified it anywhere. |
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> Only by explicitly entering INPUT_DEVICES="synaptics" emerge -pv |
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> xorg-server was I able to see, after INPUT_DEVICES in the output, the |
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> word synaptics in green with an asterisk at the end. The words evdev, |
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> keyboard and mouse appear further along in the output, also in green |
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> ending in asterisks but preceeded with a minus sign. And, that was |
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> after re-adding mouse and keyboard to INPUT_DEVICES in make.conf. |
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> Questions: |
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> Is this the right way to go? Why won't portage accept what's in |
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> make.conf in this case? It accepts my USE flags and my VIDEO_CARDS |
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> entry. What's with the green and the asterisk? Is the doc wrong? I |
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> note it was updated just three weeks ago. |
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> Maxim |
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What X server version? |
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try this: |
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INPUT_DEVICES="mouse keyboard synaptics" |
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in make.conf |
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Colour codes: |
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Red enabled |
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Blue disabled |
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Green changed |
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and the asterisks are described in man emerge section "--verbose" |
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INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" is likely default on in your profile |
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-- |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |