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From: Jacques Montier <jacques.montier@×××××××××××.fr>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg-server and my mouse
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:30:15
Message-Id: 49DF11A1.4040701@numericable.fr
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Xorg-server and my mouse by Dale
1 Dale a gentiment tapote:
2 > Hi folks,
3 >
4 > I'm not near as "upset" as I was a little while ago. I ran my updates
5 > and then took a nap while it was compiling. I woke up and they were
6 > done. Did my etc-update and went to log into KDE. No keyboard. No
7 > mouse. No nothing. I knew the new xorg-server update was going to make
8 > me change a few things but I thought I would be ABLE to change the
9 > thing. I had to unplug the computer then add softlevel=boot to get to
10 > where I could even fix the stupid thing.
11 >
12 > I'm back down to my old xorg-server-1.3* but now my mouse wheel don't
13 > work. Did this thing blow up my rat? How do i get my mouse wheel to
14 > work again?
15 >
16 > While I was trying to recover and reading, it appears I have to update
17 > my kernel for this thing to work. Something I can't do because the
18 > latest greatest kernel don't like my rig for some reason. I posted it
19 > on here somewhere a while back. Something to the effect that it is
20 > pissed at my IDE chipset. Looks like the new xorg-server is going to be
21 > masked for a while.
22 >
23 > I may have a few more questions before this mess is over. Right now,
24 > I'm going to go eat some ice cubes.
25 >
26 > Dale
27 >
28 > :-) :-)
29 >
30 >
31 >
32 >
33
34 Hi all,
35
36 Did you select the kernel option :
37 Device Drivers -> Input Device Support -> * Event interface ?
38
39 --
40 Jacques

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Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg-server and my mouse Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>