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On 07/10/2009 01:29 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: |
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> On 9 Jul, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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>> I had tried holding back on xorg-server 1.5, but somewhere in May at |
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>> least one package got past my version limits and X broke. Rather than |
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>> to try to revert, I thought surely by now, X would be fixed. Sigh. |
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>> In another thread, after spending 2 months without a working X server, |
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>> I got KDM to start. But without the mouse and keyboard. |
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>> The nice folks who got me that far warned and comisserated thus: |
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> I had a similar problem. Finally I added hald to boot |
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Was hald in 'default' before that? |
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> rc-update add hald boot |
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> and rebooted. From now on Xorg 1.5 and now 1.6 work just fine |
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> with hal. I wonder why this hasn't been done/checked by the |
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> xorg-server ebuild. |
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Interesting, I never noticed until now that I have hald in 'default' |
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like Kevin and yet I have no problems with input devices. |
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I'm using only USB mice but PS/2 keyboard with X+hal and only evdev, |
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not keyboard or mouse drivers. No InputDevice sections at all in |
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xorg.conf. |
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I'm wondering if this could be related to APCI or BIOS somehow, which |
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seems to be a major source of different bugs from machine-to-machine. |
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Dunno, but it's frustrating to watch you guys have so much trouble with |
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this problem. |
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Kevin, I have two mice, one very non-standard and the other bog-standard |
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as the Brits like to say. The Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse has two |
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buttons and a wheel, and it works well under evdev except that I like |
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to use Emulate3Buttons. |
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My InputDevice sections are gone completely, as I mentioned, so I wrote |
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a new conf file /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-emulate3buttons.fdi: |
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> |
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<deviceinfo version="0.2"> |
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<device> |
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<match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.mouse"> |
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<merge key="input.x11_options.Emulate3Buttons" type="string">true</merge> |
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</match> |
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</device> |
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</deviceinfo> |
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I just edited the system input file from /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy after |
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studying the sytax for awhile, and it worked :o) |
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Basically, anything you'd put in an InputDevice section of xorg.conf is |
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transformed into the "input.x11_options" syntax above. I made another |
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file for my non-standard mouse adding things like EmulateWheel but the |
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syntax was identical to above. |
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