[gentoo-user] hal-hell - please help
Hi, I have a strange problem with hal. To get my usb mouse (Logitech RX1000) running, I have to unplug the mouse before booting and plug it again after booting but before starting X11. This is nuisance and make a graphical login manager impossible. To make it even work I had to put Option AutoAddDevices no to my xorg.conf file What am I missing? Many thanks for your help, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany
Re: [gentoo-user] hal-hell - please help
On 2/21/09, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: To make it even work I had to put Option AutoAddDevices no to my xorg.conf file What am I missing? (Sorry if this came through already, gmail's draft saving via IMAP and a spotty wlan really mix up threads and messages in gmail's view.) During my short-lived and generally moderately clueless experimentation with the latest xorg-server, evdev and a hal-enabled PS/2 keyboard and a hal-enabled Logitech USB mouse, the mouse was not the problem, but the keyboard layouts were the killer which prompted me to disable hal altogether (ref: earlier CTRL+C kills korganizer-thread). Mouse worked ok with following changes to my earlier xorg.conf and I had no need for plugging cables in and out, it Just Worked: Section Module: Loadevdev Section ServerFlags: Option AllowEmptyInput false Section for the mouse InputDevice needed to change driver to evdev. Section ServerLayout: Option AutoAddDevices false Option AutoEnableDevices true (But I ended up commenting them out and the mouse still worked ok, so not sure if you need to toggle the defaults values for these at all.) Those changes gave me a functional USB mouse pointer with xorg-server 1.5.x, but my keyboard problems went away only after I disabled acpid and hal, and re-emerged xorg-server with USE=-hal. Wasted nearly three good weeks' nights and weekends there with kde 4.2.0 upgrade, so you can understand my above-average grumpiness about hal -- just disable it unless you really really need it. :( -- Arttu V.
Re: [gentoo-user] hal-hell - please help
Arttu V. wrote: On 2/21/09, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: To make it even work I had to put Option AutoAddDevices no to my xorg.conf file What am I missing? During my short-lived and generally moderately clueless experimentation with the latest xorg-server, evdev and a hal-enabled PS/2 keyboard and a hal-enabled Logitech USB mouse, the mouse was not the problem, but the keyboard layouts were the killer which prompted me to disable hal altogether (ref: earlier CTRL+C kills korganizer-thread). Those changes gave me a functional USB mouse pointer with xorg-server 1.5.x, but my keyboard problems went away only after I disabled acpid and hal, and re-emerged xorg-server with USE=-hal. Wasted nearly three good weeks' nights and weekends there with kde 4.2.0 upgrade, so you can understand my above-average grumpiness about hal -- just disable it unless you really really need it. :( I've felt the pain (MS natural keyboard) until recently. For my two ~x86 systems, here's the procedure that worked to get hal/xorg working. * set INPUT_DEVICES and VIDEO_CARDS in make.conf * set hal use flag in make.conf * emerge -uDNav world * emerge xorg-x11 * emerge xf86-input-evdev * create a default xorg.conf (Xorg --configure) * remove all InputDevice sections in xorg.conf * remove all references to InputDevice in the ServerLayout section * configure your video in xorg.conf * test using X -config path/to/new/xorg.conf Here's my xorg.conf: http://gist.github.com/68202 HTH, Roy
