Re: [gentoo-user] Error message in Xorg.log for intel xorg driver

[Wolfgang Liebich]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 01:18:08AM -0600, Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
> > Wolfgang Liebich wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 09:35:11AM -0600, Paul Hartman wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 2:58 AM, Wolfgang Liebich
> >>> <Wolfgang.Liebich@×××××××.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Furthermore yesterday I had a total lockup when I came to work at the
> >>>> morning --- could not login at kdm, kdm would ignore all keyboard
> >>>> input etc. I had to do a hard restart with the "Magic SysRQ" key
> >>>> (remount ro, hard reboot).
> >>>>
> >>> Do you have evdev installed? Without it, you probably won't have any
> >>> keyboard or mouse. Recent xorg made dramatic changes to the way
> >>> hardware is detected/configured by using HAL and evdev. xorg.conf is
> >>> basically unused now when it comes to configuring hardware. I don't
> >>> even have keyboard or mouse, or video modelines or anything like that
> >>> in mine. Search the list archives or the gentoo web forums, there are
> >>> many many people who had the same issues (assuming it's the cause of
> >>> yours).
> >>>
> >>
> >> Evdev is installed, but I configured the kbd driver (I have a MS
> >> Natural Keyboard, btw --- what's the best driver for that keyboard?).
> >> I still have an xorg.conf (and I'm not very inclined to change it as
> >> long as it works :-).
> >>
> >> Furthermore -- after the reboot everything worked again as before. It
> >> seems to have been some fluke, but I want to know where it comes from.
> >>
> >> TIA,
> >> Wolfgang
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Someone else like me.  I still have my xorg.conf and want to keep it
> > too.  I don't have evdev installed but from the way it sounds, me and
> > you may have to change in the future, maybe near future.
> >
> > I'm sort of wondering what pulls in evdev anyway?  I got a fully running
> > KDE and this is my new install.  Nothing pulled it in here.  I may be
> > missing a USE flag or something.
> >
> > Let's hope this works for a while longer yet.  ;-)
> >
> > Dale
> >
> > :-)  :-)
> >
> >
>
> You need "evdev" in your INPUT_DEVICES variable (mine lives in
> make.conf). In my case I have:
>
> INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse joystick evdev"

Well, I have it, I just juse kbd now. Is evdev better? BTW, I'm using
a MS Natural Keyboard 4000 - there was a special gentoo wiki page for
using this keyboard. Are there any special tips for this keyboard?

Ciao,
Wolfgang

>
> and portage automagically built those packages.
>

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