Marko Obrovac http://www.linkedin.com/in/doorman
On 3 March 2010 14:08, Marko Obrovac <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2 March 2010 21:22, Marko Obrovac <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello people, >> >> I own an MSI laptop (GX-700) and today I bought an external monitor (LG >> W2443) and a wireless keyboard/mouse combo (Trust) for it. However, I'm >> having problems with all of them :( >> >> Firstly the keyboard/mouse issue. A few months ago I bought a wireless >> mouse (also a Trust one), just plugged it in, started the system and >> everything worked nicely. Now, I can't get the new keyboard/mouse combo to >> work. I'm sure they're OK, because in the grub menu I can use the new >> keyboard to select/edit/etc the boot stuff (i.e. I'm sure BIOS recognises >> it). However, I can't seem to get it to work in Xorg... The thing that >> strikes me the most is that the "old" mouse worked without a problem. Any >> hints? >> > > It seems like it's definitely a kernel "issue". I tried to start an > interactive boot, but the kernel didn't respond to the "i" I hit (of course, > hitting it on the laptop keyboard works like a charm). I read thoroughly > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/usb-guide.xml and > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=79, but all usb/hid configuration > was already in place. > Finally I solved it :) I suspected something was wrong with the usbhid module. So, out of curiosity, I booted up a live cd just to see whether its kernel will properly initialise the combo. Of course, it did :) The rest was easy - I found out the kernel had registered the combo as "Sunplus Wireless Desktop" (and not Trust), so a quick look at the .config file revealed I should enable sunplus hid support. > > >> Secondly, the new monitor. I can see constant flickering on it. I'm sure >> it's not the monitor's fault since I had similar issues with others as well >> - that is to say, I'm quite convinced it has something to do with my graphic >> card (nvidia geforce 8600m gt). >> > > As for the flickering, I deducted it's a refresh rate issue. I lowered the > resolution, increased the refresh rate and turned the resolution back to its > maximum and the flickering "disappeared". However, nvidia-settings doesn't > allow me to increase the frequency with the maximum resolution, which > practically means I have to redo the steps mentioned every time I restart > Xorg. Anybody knows how to get around this? > No luck on this point yet. But now that I can organise my desk I'll look into it > > >> I'm pasting the xorg.conf and /etc/make.conf files here as I'm not sure >> the mailing list supports attachments. >> >> Any help is welcome, >> Marko >> >> >> XORG.CONF >> ========= >> # nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings >> # nvidia-settings: version 1.0 (r...@moveable-basket) Wed Oct 21 >> 23:07:18 Local time zone must be set--see zic manual page 2009 >> >> #Section "InputDevice" >> # Identifier "Mouse0" >> # #Driver "synaptics" >> # Driver "mouse" >> # Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" >> # #Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" >> # Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7" >> #EndSection >> >> Section "ServerLayout" >> >> Identifier "X.org Configured" >> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 >> InputDevice "Keyboard0" >> InputDevice "Mouse0" >> Option "BackingStore" "True" >> # InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" >> EndSection >> >> Section "Files" >> ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules" >> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/" >> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/" >> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/OTF" >> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/" >> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/" >> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/" >> EndSection >> >> Section "Module" >> >> #Load "dbe" >> #Load "dri" >> #Load "dri2" >> #Load "extmod" >> Load "glx" >> #Load "record" >> EndSection >> >> Section "ServerFlags" >> Option "Xinerama" "0" >> EndSection >> >> Section "InputDevice" >> # generated from data in "/etc/conf.d/gpm" >> Identifier "Mouse0" >> Driver "evdev" >> Option "Protocol" >> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" >> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" >> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" >> EndSection >> >> Section "InputDevice" >> >> #Driver "kbd" >> Identifier "Keyboard0" >> Driver "evdev" >> #Option "CoreKeyboard" >> Option "XkbRules" "xrrg" >> Option "XkbModel" "pc105" >> Option "XkbLayout" "us,hr" >> #Option "Device" "/dev/input/event6" >> EndSection >> >> Section "Monitor" >> Identifier "Monitor0" >> VendorName "Unknown" >> ModelName "LG W2443" >> HorizSync 30.0 - 83.0 >> VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0 >> EndSection >> >> Section "Device" >> Identifier "Card0" >> Driver "nvidia" >> VendorName "nVidia Corporation" >> BoardName "GeForce 8600M GT" >> Option "RenderAccel" "True" >> BusID "PCI:8:0:0" >> EndSection >> >> Section "Device" >> Identifier "Device0" >> Driver "nvidia" >> VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" >> BoardName "GeForce 8600M GT" >> EndSection >> >> Section "Screen" >> Identifier "Screen0" >> Device "Device0" >> Monitor "Monitor0" >> DefaultDepth 24 >> Option "TwinView" "0" >> Option "metamodes" "CRT: nvidia-auto-select +0+0" >> SubSection "Display" >> Modes "1920x1080" >> Depth 16 >> EndSubSection >> SubSection "Display" >> Modes "1920x1080" >> Depth 24 >> EndSubSection >> EndSection >> >> #Section "Extensions" >> # Option "Composite" "Enable" >> #EndSection >> >> >> >> MAKE.CONF >> ========== >> # These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically >> # built this stage. >> # Please consult /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example for a more >> # detailed example. >> CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" >> CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" >> # WARNING: Changing your CHOST is not something that should be done >> lightly. >> # Please consult http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml before >> changing. >> CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" >> # These are the USE flags that were used in addition to what is provided >> by the >> # profile used for building. >> #USE="mmx sse sse2" >> USE="intel mmx sse sse2 bash-completion cddb cdparanoia cups dvb ffmpeg gd >> gnuplot imagemagick jabber jingle lame latex lm_sensors mime msn multilib >> ncurses networkmanager nptl nsplugin offensive pcmcia pcre perl plotutils >> posix python readline smp sockets subversion suid symlink syslog threads v4l >> v4l2 vim-syntax wifi wxwidgets xattr xcomposite xft xine xinetd yahoo -kde >> -qt3 -qt4" >> VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" >> ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel loopback virmidi" >> INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse synaptics" >> ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" >> >> MAKEOPTS="-j3" >> >> GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.imj.fr/pub/gentoo/ >> ftp://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/ >> http://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/ >> ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.gentoo.org/ " >> >> SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" >> source /usr/local/portage/layman/make.conf >> > >
