Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Some hints about evdev versus xorg and your mouse and keyboard

2009-04-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:53:18 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: There are some strange mnemonics involving elephants, that are harder to remember than the key sequence. The easy way to remember the full sequence is BUSIER backwards. Actually, for me Raising Elefants Is So Utterly Boring is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Some hints about evdev versus xorg and your mouse and keyboard

2009-04-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:09:22 -0500, Dale wrote: I wonder if magic sysrq would have worked? I don't think I tried it when my keyboard became dead. It should do, because that goes direct to th kernel, and it is only X that cannot read the keyboard. I couldn't find

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Some hints about evdev versus xorg and your mouse and keyboard

2009-04-18 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: Neil Bothwick writes: On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:09:22 -0500, Dale wrote: I wonder if magic sysrq would have worked? I don't think I tried it when my keyboard became dead. It should do, because that goes direct to th kernel, and it is only X that cannot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Some hints about evdev versus xorg and your mouse and keyboard

2009-04-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:58:40 -0500, Dale wrote: No, I don't have another machine to ssh in. I wish I did. It's have a working keyboard or hit the reset button/pull the plug. Did you try the Magic SysRq keys? That's a lot friendlier than cutting the power. -- Neil Bothwick Loose bits sink

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Some hints about evdev versus xorg and your mouse and keyboard

2009-04-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:09:22 -0500, Dale wrote: I wonder if magic sysrq would have worked? I don't think I tried it when my keyboard became dead. It should do, because that goes direct to th kernel, and it is only X that cannot read the keyboard. I couldn't find where I wrote those key

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Some hints about evdev versus xorg and your mouse and keyboard

2009-04-11 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:58:40 -0500, Dale wrote: No, I don't have another machine to ssh in. I wish I did. It's have a working keyboard or hit the reset button/pull the plug. Did you try the Magic SysRq keys? That's a lot friendlier than cutting the power.

[gentoo-user] Re: Some hints about evdev versus xorg and your mouse and keyboard

2009-04-10 Thread walt
walt wrote: ... If you have an unusual mouse, as I do, you will need to create a new fdi file in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ to get it working properly. Oops, forgot to mention /usr/bin/lshal, which will tell you what hald thinks it knows about your hardware. As one more example, here is what lshal

[gentoo-user] Re: Some hints about evdev versus xorg and your mouse and keyboard

2009-04-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
walt wrote: [...] HTF the average user is supposed to figure all this out for himself is beyond me. I'm thankful for the expert help I got. Gentoo is not for the average user. We had discussions in the past where GUIs were discussed to make these things automagic, but most Gentoo users here

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Some hints about evdev versus xorg and your mouse and keyboard

2009-04-10 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: walt wrote: [...] HTF the average user is supposed to figure all this out for himself is beyond me. I'm thankful for the expert help I got. Gentoo is not for the average user. We had discussions in the past where GUIs were discussed to make these things automagic,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Some hints about evdev versus xorg and your mouse and keyboard

2009-04-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: walt wrote: [...] HTF the average user is supposed to figure all this out for himself is beyond me. I'm thankful for the expert help I got. Gentoo is not for the average user. We had discussions in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Some hints about evdev versus xorg and your mouse and keyboard

2009-04-10 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: walt wrote: [...] HTF the average user is supposed to figure all this out for himself is beyond me. I'm thankful for the expert help I got. Gentoo is