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Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Wolfgang Liebich wrote: |
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>>> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 09:35:11AM -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: |
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>>>> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 2:58 AM, Wolfgang Liebich |
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>>>> <Wolfgang.Liebich@×××××××.com> wrote: |
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>>>>> Furthermore yesterday I had a total lockup when I came to work at the |
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>>>>> morning --- could not login at kdm, kdm would ignore all keyboard |
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>>>>> input etc. I had to do a hard restart with the "Magic SysRQ" key |
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>>>>> (remount ro, hard reboot). |
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>>>> Do you have evdev installed? Without it, you probably won't have any |
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>>>> keyboard or mouse. Recent xorg made dramatic changes to the way |
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>>>> hardware is detected/configured by using HAL and evdev. xorg.conf is |
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>>>> basically unused now when it comes to configuring hardware. I don't |
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>>>> even have keyboard or mouse, or video modelines or anything like that |
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>>>> in mine. Search the list archives or the gentoo web forums, there are |
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>>>> many many people who had the same issues (assuming it's the cause of |
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>>>> yours). |
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>>> Evdev is installed, but I configured the kbd driver (I have a MS |
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>>> Natural Keyboard, btw --- what's the best driver for that keyboard?). |
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>>> I still have an xorg.conf (and I'm not very inclined to change it as |
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>>> long as it works :-). |
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>>> Furthermore -- after the reboot everything worked again as before. It |
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>>> seems to have been some fluke, but I want to know where it comes from. |
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>>> TIA, |
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>>> Wolfgang |
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>> Someone else like me. I still have my xorg.conf and want to keep it |
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>> too. I don't have evdev installed but from the way it sounds, me and |
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>> you may have to change in the future, maybe near future. |
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>> I'm sort of wondering what pulls in evdev anyway? I got a fully running |
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>> KDE and this is my new install. Nothing pulled it in here. I may be |
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>> missing a USE flag or something. |
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>> Let's hope this works for a while longer yet. ;-) |
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>> Dale |
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>> :-) :-) |
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> You need "evdev" in your INPUT_DEVICES variable (mine lives in |
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> make.conf). In my case I have: |
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> INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse joystick evdev" |
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> and portage automagically built those packages. |
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So if evdev failed for some reason, it would fall back to the keyboard |
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and mouse drivers you think? That I would be willing to try if that is |
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the case. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |