Re: [gentoo-user] Error message in Xorg.log for intel xorg driver

[Dale]

Wolfgang Liebich wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 09:35:11AM -0600, Paul Hartman wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 2:58 AM, Wolfgang Liebich
>> <Wolfgang.Liebich@×××××××.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Furthermore yesterday I had a total lockup when I came to work at the
>>> morning --- could not login at kdm, kdm would ignore all keyboard
>>> input etc. I had to do a hard restart with the "Magic SysRQ" key
>>> (remount ro, hard reboot).
>>>
>> Do you have evdev installed? Without it, you probably won't have any
>> keyboard or mouse. Recent xorg made dramatic changes to the way
>> hardware is detected/configured by using HAL and evdev. xorg.conf is
>> basically unused now when it comes to configuring hardware. I don't
>> even have keyboard or mouse, or video modelines or anything like that
>> in mine. Search the list archives or the gentoo web forums, there are
>> many many people who had the same issues (assuming it's the cause of
>> yours).
>>
>
> Evdev is installed, but I configured the kbd driver (I have a MS
> Natural Keyboard, btw --- what's the best driver for that keyboard?).
> I still have an xorg.conf (and I'm not very inclined to change it as
> long as it works :-).
>
> Furthermore -- after the reboot everything worked again as before. It
> seems to have been some fluke, but I want to know where it comes from.
>
> TIA,
> Wolfgang
>
>

Someone else like me.  I still have my xorg.conf and want to keep it
too.  I don't have evdev installed but from the way it sounds, me and
you may have to change in the future, maybe near future.

I'm sort of wondering what pulls in evdev anyway?  I got a fully running
KDE and this is my new install.  Nothing pulled it in here.  I may be
missing a USE flag or something.

Let's hope this works for a while longer yet.  ;-) 

Dale

:-)  :-)