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Hi all, |
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First, I have to thank you *all* for your patience with me. I'm not a |
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developer and my formal computer training is limited. However, I'm not |
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stupid (I know no one has implied that), but I get a little frustrated |
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when I've done something successfully a half dozen times and now it |
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doesn't work. The difference with this Gentoo install is the nvidia |
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card. I've always used ATI cards and after this experience, I think I |
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still prefer them. Anyway, .... |
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Iain Buchanan wrote: |
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> On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 08:50 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote: |
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>> Iain Buchanan wrote: |
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>>> On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 00:32 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote: |
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>>>> Mouse support is compiled into my kernel (genkernel) |
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>>>> Although the section for keyboard is there, there isn't a relevant |
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>>>> choice to pick, but I assume that's because this is a laptop. |
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>>> are you able to post your kernel .config file somewhere? Perhaps |
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>>> there's a problem there... |
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>> I'll try, but it won't be until tonight. |
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> |
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> pastebin is good for this kind of thing (pastebin.com). Just let us |
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> know the number! |
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I think I *may* have solved my problem. I had nvidia (NV2) support built |
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into the kernel. I rebuilt the kernel without nvidia support, removed |
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xorg-x11 and removed nvidia-drivers. Then I did emerge --update --deep |
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nvidia-drivers. A bunch of stuff was updated because of newer versions |
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being available, but a number of things were installed - like kbd and |
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mouse. I don't know maybe having nvidia support built into the kernel |
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was preventing the xorg drivers for mouse and keyboard being installed. |
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I *did* read the nvidia guide, but I must have misunderstood because I |
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thougt that only older nv drivers were incompatible with newer cards. |
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Anyway, now I'm emerging KDE. Will let you know officially how it goes. |
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Regards, |
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Colleen |
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