On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 01:18:08AM -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.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.lieb...@siemens.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. > -- Wolfgang Liebich IT Services and Enterprise Communications Rampengasse 3, 1190 Wien, AUSTRIA Tel: +43 51707 47734
