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On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Philip Webb<purslow@××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> 090709 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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>>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Dale<rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>>> If all else fails: |
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>>>> x11-base/xorg-server -hal |
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>>> Is there any other advice? |
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>> A new HAL made no difference. Sigh. |
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> I ran into this twice, first on my frontline machine, then on the stand-by. |
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> The solution was 'USE="-hal" emerge xorg-server', then remerge all drivers. |
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> There was a Gentoo help doc re it, which gave this as the simplest option. |
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> 'evdev' is a separate matter: you need to include it in your kernel, |
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> than you can simplify your drivers. |
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> HTH |
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Evdev has been included in my kernels throughout this mess. It hasn't |
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helped. The Gentoo doc on the upgrade was a bit scetchy about |
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configuring HAL; now that I find that disabling HAL in xorg is the |
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solution, I suspect that the underlying problem is HAL configuration. |
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After all, there's nothing at all special about my mouse or keyboard. |
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Why should we have to configure HAL manually? Since the stone ages, |
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Linux installations have determined what keyboard we have and have set |
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things up for us. How different can PS/2 or USB mice be? |
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SO: if anyone succeeded with xorg and HAL, with a USA keyboard and a |
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wheel mouse, would please tell me about their HAL config, I'd sure |
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love to see it. |
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++ kevin |
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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