Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:

> On Sunday 16 May 2010 16:43:48 Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
> wrote:
> > > On Sunday 16 May 2010 02:24:10 Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > > > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
> > > > > Mine has xf86-* drivers as well.  OP, do you have your setting in
> > > > > make.conf correctly?  Mine looks like this:
> > > > >
> > > > > INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev"
> > > > >
> > > > > I do NOT use hal so your settings may need to be different but you
> do
> > > > > need the line tho.
> > > > >
> > > > > I have INPUT_DEVICES="evdev", and adding either of the others makes
> X
> > >
> > > go
> > >
> > > > back to not starting at all.
> > >
> > > That's right, you will also then need to install the appropriate x86
> > > driver;
> > > e.g. x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse
> >
> > You mean like this, the way it's always been?  Or is there something more
> > specific I have to do?
> > treat src # eix x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse
> > [I] x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse
> >      Available versions:  1.5.0{tbz2} {debug}
> >      Installed versions:  1.5.0{tbz2}(09:38:05 PM 05/11/2010)(-debug)
> >      Homepage:            http://xorg.freedesktop.org/
> >      Description:         X.Org driver for mouse input devices
> >
> > treat src #
> >
> > BTW, the most recent boot started X without the mouse working, but these
> >  two lines appear in /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> >
> > line 44-47: (==) |-->Input Device "evdev"
> >             (==) |-->Input Device "<default keyboard>"
> >             (==) The core pointer device wasn't specified explicitly in
> the
> > layout.
> >                     Using the first mouse device.
> >
> >
> > line 457:   (==) MACH64(0): Silken mouse enabled
> >
> > (MACH64 is my video card)
> > (My mouse is a Microsoft optical with a USB cord that I use with a PS/2
> > adapter and a KVM switch, which works with Live disks. I have no idea
> what
> > Silken is)
> >
> >
> > These are the only lines with the word "mouse" in them.
>
> Kevin, what I would try first is to set INPUT_DEVICES="evdev mouse" in your
> /etc/make.conf, then emerge x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse and finally
> reboot.
> Unless your mouse needs some special driver it will just work.
>
> I've been down this road (with simpler hardware than yours it seems) and my
> machine would not start xorg if I did not have INPUT_DEVICES="evdev mouse
> keyboard".  On my laptops I had to also add synaptics.
>
> Well, that breaks kind of badly.  X never even starts.  But for a peculiar
reason...  Here's what I find in the log file
 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
Data incomplete in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf
        Undefined InputDevice "evdev mouse" referenced by ServerLayout
"X.org Configured".
(EE) Problem parsing the config file
(EE) Error parsing the config file

Fatal server error:
no screens found

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So I tried the same thing with two statements

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    #InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    #InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
        InputDevice     "evdev"
        InputDevice     "mouse"
EndSection


And I got

(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
Data incomplete in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf
        Undefined InputDevice "mouse" referenced by ServerLayout "X.org
Configured".
(EE) Problem parsing the config file
(EE) Error parsing the config file

Fatal server error:
no screens found

So I'm thinking it just doesn't like "mouse" all of a sudden.  Say what?

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD