Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-21 Thread Mick
On Monday 21 February 2011 04:07:20 Valmor de Almeida wrote: otherwise my keyboard keybindings do not work. I have also tried the pointer InputClass outside the xorg.conf file, that is, inside the xorg.conf.d/ directory. As long as the 10-synaptics.conf file is read first, the keyboard config

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-20 Thread Mick
On Sunday 20 February 2011 00:25:24 Valmor de Almeida wrote: On 02/19/2011 06:59 PM, Mick wrote: [snip] On two laptops of mine evdev causes untold confusion with the touchpad and second language selection for the keyboard. I *have* to use the synaptics and keyboard input drivers. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 14:48:17 -0500, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Thanks for the help. This was less painful than I thought. However it exposed a internet connection problem. I am using wicd for wireless and wired internet config. This laptop happened to be in a place where no wired internet is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-20 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 02/20/2011 12:53 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 14:48:17 -0500, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Thanks for the help. This was less painful than I thought. However it exposed a internet connection problem. I am using wicd for wireless and wired internet config. This laptop happened

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-20 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 02/20/2011 10:03 AM, Mick wrote: [snip] Have you had a look at: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.8-upgrade-guide.xml Yes. Got some info there. Also, have a read of the InputClass section in man xorg.conf and the files in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/. This

[gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/19/2011 07:44 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: [...] I have just updated xorg to 1.9.4 with USE -hal and removed hal in this order (also needed to remove hal from the default run level). I tried startx using the existing xorg.conf and X does not start correctly, I have no mouse and a frozen

[gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/19/2011 08:24 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: On 02/19/2011 07:44 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: [...] I have just updated xorg to 1.9.4 with USE -hal and removed hal in this order (also needed to remove hal from the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Dale
Valmor de Almeida wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: On 02/19/2011 07:44 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: [...] I have just updated xorg to 1.9.4 with USE -hal and removed hal in this order (also needed to remove hal from the default run

[gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/19/2011 08:32 PM, Dale wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Valmor de Almeidaval.gen...@gmail.com wrote: [...] I have just updated xorg to 1.9.4 with USE -hal and removed hal in this order (also needed to remove hal from the default run level). I tried startx using

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 02/19/2011 07:44 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: [...] I have just updated xorg to 1.9.4 with USE -hal and removed hal in this order (also needed to remove hal from the default run level).  I tried startx using the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 02/19/2011 01:24 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 02/19/2011 07:44 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: [snip] emerge --depclean -vp Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to the following required packages not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 02/19/2011 01:46 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [snip] INPUT_DEVICES=keyboard mouse evdev Don't forget to enable udev as Mike suggested too. I put mine in the USE line. After all, about all hardware now uses udev to see hardware. You only need evdev. keyboard and mouse are deprecated

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: You only need evdev. keyboard and mouse are deprecated drivers. They have bugs that no one appears to be fixing anymore. I been wondering about that but never saw emerge complain so I left it in there, after all, it is working so why try to fix it. I'll remove

[gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/19/2011 10:14 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: On 02/19/2011 08:32 PM, Dale wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: SNIP Don't forget to enable udev as Mike suggested too. I put mine in the USE line. After all, about all hardware

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 02/19/2011 03:41 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 02/19/2011 10:14 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: SNIP Should I be enabling udev globally in make.conf? I'm currently not. I do have it on xorg-server so I'm not seeing the OP's

[gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/19/2011 10:41 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: On 02/19/2011 10:14 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: SNIP Should I be enabling udev globally in make.conf? I'm currently not. I do have it on xorg-server so I'm not seeing the OP's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 02/19/2011 08:32 PM, Dale wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: SNIP Don't forget to enable udev as Mike suggested too. I put mine in the USE line. After all, about all hardware now uses udev to see hardware. You only need

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 02/19/2011 10:14 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: SNIP Should I be enabling udev globally in make.conf? I'm currently not. I do have it on xorg-server so I'm not seeing the OP's issue, but I never wanted to get into making my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Mick
On Saturday 19 February 2011 20:41:42 Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 02/19/2011 10:14 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: SNIP Should I be enabling udev globally in make.conf? I'm currently not. I do have it on xorg-server so I'm not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 02/19/2011 06:59 PM, Mick wrote: [snip] On two laptops of mine evdev causes untold confusion with the touchpad and second language selection for the keyboard. I *have* to use the synaptics and keyboard input drivers. I'm also using mouse (because it doesn't hurt I guess). I