On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Mick <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sunday 16 May 2010 02:24:10 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Dale <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Mine has xf86-* drivers as well. OP, do you have your setting in > > > make.conf correctly? Mine looks like this: > > > > > > INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" > > > > > > I do NOT use hal so your settings may need to be different but you do > > > need the line tho. > > > > > > I have INPUT_DEVICES="evdev", and adding either of the others makes X > go > > > > back to not starting at all. > > That's right, you will also then need to install the appropriate x86 > driver; > e.g. x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse > > You mean like this, the way it's always been? Or is there something more specific I have to do? treat src # eix x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse [I] x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse Available versions: 1.5.0{tbz2} {debug} Installed versions: 1.5.0{tbz2}(09:38:05 PM 05/11/2010)(-debug) Homepage: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/ Description: X.Org driver for mouse input devices treat src # BTW, the most recent boot started X without the mouse working, but these two lines appear in /var/log/Xorg.0.log line 44-47: (==) |-->Input Device "evdev" (==) |-->Input Device "<default keyboard>" (==) The core pointer device wasn't specified explicitly in the layout. Using the first mouse device. line 457: (==) MACH64(0): Silken mouse enabled (MACH64 is my video card) (My mouse is a Microsoft optical with a USB cord that I use with a PS/2 adapter and a KVM switch, which works with Live disks. I have no idea what Silken is) These are the only lines with the word "mouse" in them. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
