Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-11 Thread Keith Dart
On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:47:09 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: What gets me is this, I even did a fresh install on another hard drive, it don't work there either. hal and friends were included from the very start of the install too. Either I am missing something that is not in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-11 Thread Dale
Keith Dart wrote: On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:47:09 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: What gets me is this, I even did a fresh install on another hard drive, it don't work there either. hal and friends were included from the very start of the install too. Either I am missing something

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Keith Dartke...@dartworks.biz wrote: On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:53:22 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: This is NOT the way for Linux to make progress in the desktop wars, folks. Works for me. ;-) But its true that Xorg is making some rapid

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-10 Thread Robin Atwood
On Friday 10 July 2009, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Kevin O'Gormankogor...@gmail.com wrote: Okay, I'm re-emerging hal. I was already using gcc-4.1.2. I still have mouse and keyboard emerged, but not mentioned in the xorg.conf. I am coming late to the party here

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-10 Thread Philip Webb
090709 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: If all else fails: x11-base/xorg-server  -hal Is there any other advice? A new HAL made no difference. Sigh. I ran into this twice, first on my frontline machine, then on the stand-by. The solution

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-10 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Philip Webbpurs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 090709 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: If all else fails: x11-base/xorg-server  -hal Is there any other advice? A new HAL made no difference.  Sigh. I ran into this

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-10 Thread Dale
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Philip Webbpurs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 090709 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: If all else fails: x11-base/xorg-server -hal Is there any other advice?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 10 July 2009 17:43:44 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Philip Webbpurs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 090709 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: If all else fails: x11-base/xorg-server -hal Is there any other

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-10 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 10 July 2009 17:43:44 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Philip Webbpurs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 090709 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: If all else fails:

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-10 Thread walt
On 07/10/2009 01:29 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 9 Jul, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I had tried holding back on xorg-server 1.5, but somewhere in May at least one package got past my version limits and X broke. Rather than to try to revert, I thought surely by now, X would be fixed. Sigh. In

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-10 Thread David
Mine is working fine also, I did have to rebuild all the drivers after every update, using 1.6.1.901-r5 currently; This is a desktop, I have nothing in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ david [02:54 PM] opteron ~ $ ls /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/ evdev_drv.so kbd_drv.so mouse_drv.so Here is xorg.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-10 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:50 AM, waltw41...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/10/2009 01:29 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On  9 Jul, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I had tried holding back on xorg-server 1.5, but somewhere in May at least one package got past my version limits and X broke.  Rather than to try to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-10 Thread Keith Dart
On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:53:22 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: This is NOT the way for Linux to make progress in the desktop wars, folks. Works for me. ;-) But its true that Xorg is making some rapid progress. There's some growing pains. If you are running Gentoo unstable mask

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-09 Thread James
Kevin O'Gorman kogorman at gmail.com writes: 'emerge -e1 world' did the trick Okay, I was hoping for variable mileage, but maybe no dice. Have you rebuilt HAL? It might help I have rebuilt version hal-0.5.11-r9 try to get back to what you had before your last (broken) upgrade.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-09 Thread Dale
James wrote: Kevin O'Gorman kogorman at gmail.com writes: 'emerge -e1 world' did the trick Okay, I was hoping for variable mileage, but maybe no dice. Have you rebuilt HAL? It might help I have rebuilt version hal-0.5.11-r9 try to get back to what you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: James wrote: Kevin O'Gorman kogorman at gmail.com writes: 'emerge -e1 world' did the trick Okay, I was hoping for variable mileage, but maybe no dice. Have you rebuilt HAL? It might help I have rebuilt version

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-09 Thread Dale
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: James wrote: Kevin O'Gorman kogorman at gmail.com writes: 'emerge -e1 world' did the trick Okay, I was hoping for variable mileage, but maybe no dice.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Kevin O'Gormankogor...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: James wrote: Kevin O'Gorman kogorman at gmail.com writes: 'emerge -e1 world' did the trick Okay, I was hoping for variable mileage, but maybe no dice.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: James wrote: Kevin O'Gorman kogorman at gmail.com writes: 'emerge -e1 world' did the trick Okay, I was hoping for variable mileage,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-09 Thread Dale
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: A new HAL made no difference. Sigh. Another option occurs to me: get a new video card and stop using the onboard one. I've barely paid any attention to the threads about ATI vs NVIDIA, and don't know if there are any others worth considering. Care to make a