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From: Jeff Grant <jgrant@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg 7.0 upgrade questions
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 01:00:39
Message-Id: 44F633BC.8080402@voicesignal.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg 7.0 upgrade questions by Donnie Berkholz
1 For my K/V/M (keyboard, video, mouse) to all work snappy with the new
2 Xorg, I made sure to include these items in my /etc/make.conf:
3
4 INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse joystick"
5
6 VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia v4l vesa"
7
8 My Logitech mouse was acting crappy until I added those lines.
9
10 As always, YMMV.
11
12 -Jeff
13
14 Donnie Berkholz wrote:
15 > James wrote:
16 >> Still in /etc/X11/xkb the symbolic link flashes red
17 >> indicated that /usr/lib/X11/xkb does not exit.
18 >
19 > I've never heard of /etc/X11/xkb, and I don't have it on my systems. Get
20 > rid of it.
21 >
22 >> KDM will not fire up automactically. So I log
23 >> in and run 'startx' and here are the errors I get:
24 >>
25 >> 'failed to load module "kbd" (modules does not exist, 0)'
26 >
27 > Perhaps you don't have the keyboard driver installed. Install
28 > portage-utils and run `qlist -I x11-drivers` -- this should get
29 > installed if you have configured the INPUT_DEVICES variable properly in
30 > make.conf, or even if you left it blank (Assuming you aren't on a
31 > super-old profile).
32 >
33 >> and
34 >> 'Cannot open device /dev/input/mice No such file or dir'
35 >>
36 >> On the mouse issue 'ls /dev/input' shows only this dir:
37 >> by-path
38 >
39 > Sounds like your kernel's missing mouse support, or you've specifically
40 > configured udev to do something other than the default behavior.
41 >
42 >> On my other xorg 7.0 systems I get this:
43 >> # ls /dev/input
44 >> event0 event1 event2 mice mouse0 mouse1
45 >
46 > Thanks,
47 > Donnie
48 >
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