Hello,
After updating my machine which included upgrading
xorg-server-1.7.6. I was left with a none working mouse and
keyboard. After an hour or so of checking I decided to
re-emerge xorg-server again to discover a message to rebuild
x11-drivers. I rebuilt x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev and mouse
and keyboard worked again.
Question 1
Should x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev be rebuilt automatically
after xorg-server upgrade?
Linux/Gentoo appaers to be moving away from xorg.conf and
towards hal/policices. When using proprietary graphics
drivers you also need xorg.conf.
Question 2
Is it possible to use proprietary ati-drivers and
nvidia-drivers wthout having to use xorg.conf. Can this
be done through hal and will this change in the future?
I have tried using x11 radeon driver with built in kernel
direct rendering. The performance of this was relatively poor.
Stellarium would not work, a few games would barely
function. ati-drivers-8.7.2 works well with xorg-server-1.7.6
and cured all these issues but this required unmasking hard
masked package.
Question 3
Sould I expect x11 radeon driver with built in kernel dri to be
as good as fglrx? Direct rendering was running (glxinfo).
Thanks. Hope this is clear
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John D Maunder
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