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On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 01:16:34PM -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> > > These are the only lines with the word "mouse" in them. |
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> > Kevin, what I would try first is to set INPUT_DEVICES="evdev mouse" in your |
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> > /etc/make.conf, then emerge x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse and finally |
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> > reboot. |
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> > Unless your mouse needs some special driver it will just work. |
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The advice is to set the appropriate flag in /etc/make.conf |
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NOT what you are doing below to /etc/X11/xorg.conf |
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> So I tried the same thing with two statements |
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> Section "ServerLayout" |
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> Identifier "X.org Configured" |
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> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 |
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> #InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" |
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> #InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" |
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> InputDevice "evdev" |
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> InputDevice "mouse" |
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> EndSection |
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That is not exactly the right syntax for Xorg.conf |
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If you are using an xorg.conf and not just using evdev/hal, then you |
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should probably have something more like this in your configuration |
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file: |
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Section "ServerLayout" |
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Identifier "X.org Configured" |
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Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 |
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InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" |
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InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" |
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EndSection |
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Section "InputDevice" |
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Identifier "Keyboard0" |
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Driver "kbd" |
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EndSection |
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Section "InputDevice" |
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Identifier "Mouse0" |
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Driver "mouse" |
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Option "Protocol" "auto" |
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Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse1" |
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EndSection |
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...plus other things. In the InputDevice section for Mouse0, note the |
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Option that sets the Device to /dev/input/mouse1. You will have to set |
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that to the appropriate path to the pointer device. It will most |
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likely by somewhere in /dev/input/ (often just mouse0 or mice, I have |
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a separate touchscreen device so mine is at mouse1). If you do not |
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have a mouse device listed in /dev/input, then you need to check |
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either your kernel configurations or your udev configurations. |
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For more about the proper syntax in xorg.conf, try "man xorg.conf". |
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If you are unsure about how to write your xorg.conf file, post its |
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full contents to the list and we'll take a look at it. |
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Cheers, |
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W |
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Willie W. Wong wwong@××××××××××××××.edu |
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Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire |
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et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton |
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