On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Dale <[email protected]> wrote: > Wolfgang Liebich wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 09:35:11AM -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 2:58 AM, Wolfgang Liebich >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Furthermore yesterday I had a total lockup when I came to work at the >>>> morning --- could not login at kdm, kdm would ignore all keyboard >>>> input etc. I had to do a hard restart with the "Magic SysRQ" key >>>> (remount ro, hard reboot). >>>> >>> Do you have evdev installed? Without it, you probably won't have any >>> keyboard or mouse. Recent xorg made dramatic changes to the way >>> hardware is detected/configured by using HAL and evdev. xorg.conf is >>> basically unused now when it comes to configuring hardware. I don't >>> even have keyboard or mouse, or video modelines or anything like that >>> in mine. Search the list archives or the gentoo web forums, there are >>> many many people who had the same issues (assuming it's the cause of >>> yours). >>> >> >> Evdev is installed, but I configured the kbd driver (I have a MS >> Natural Keyboard, btw --- what's the best driver for that keyboard?). >> I still have an xorg.conf (and I'm not very inclined to change it as >> long as it works :-). >> >> Furthermore -- after the reboot everything worked again as before. It >> seems to have been some fluke, but I want to know where it comes from. >> >> TIA, >> Wolfgang >> >> > > Someone else like me. I still have my xorg.conf and want to keep it > too. I don't have evdev installed but from the way it sounds, me and > you may have to change in the future, maybe near future. > > I'm sort of wondering what pulls in evdev anyway? I got a fully running > KDE and this is my new install. Nothing pulled it in here. I may be > missing a USE flag or something. > > Let's hope this works for a while longer yet. ;-) > > Dale > > :-) :-) > >
You need "evdev" in your INPUT_DEVICES variable (mine lives in make.conf). In my case I have: INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse joystick evdev" and portage automagically built those packages.
