Re: [gentoo-user] mdev: Has anybody managed to get the keyboard and mouse to work under X?

[Pandu Poluan]

On Mar 15, 2012 8:19 AM, "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 03:20:48PM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote
> > Hi, Gentoo.
> >
> > As I've said a few times in the current threads, the only thing
> > preventing me from moving fully onto mdev is not having a working
> > keyboard and mouse (evdev??) under X.
> >
> > Has anybody else tried this, and if so, what results have you had?
>
>  I begin my USE variable with "-*" and add only the necessary stuff.
> If you want to run X without udev, then compile xorg-server with
> "USE=-udev".  I don't have evdev installed at all.  I've run X without
> an xorg.conf.  The only reason I have an xorg.conf now is to allow
> xrandr to force a weird 1536x864 video mode on my 1920x1080 monitor when
> watching one specific website.
>

Of course, needless to say (but I'll say it anyway), when you re-emerge X,
you should re-emerge X drivers.

Rgds,