Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:58 AM, Paul Hartman > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:36 AM, Dale <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Paul Hartman wrote: >>> >>>> 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. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> So if evdev failed for some reason, it would fall back to the keyboard >>> and mouse drivers you think? That I would be willing to try if that is >>> the case. >>> >>> Dale >>> >>> :-) :-) >>> >>> >>> >> I don't know, for me it simply works as intended so... maybe I'll try >> to remove the keyboard and mouse and see what happens :) but in my >> case my xorg.conf is virtually empty aside from some fonts and nvidia >> card options. My display and input devices "just work" without being >> specified in xorg.conf with drivers, modelines or any of that stuff. I >> changed monitors yesterday and simply killed X and it restarted in the >> optimal resolution for the new monitor. I've plugged different >> mouse/keyboard and it just works automatically. >> >> The HAL policies in /etc/hal/fdi/policy contain the same exact >> settings as xorg.conf only formatted a little differently... you can >> give device-specific custom settings if you need and I think >> everything you have done in xorg.conf can be done the new way. >> >> > > I should say they CAN contain the same exact settings. It is up to you > to put them there :) > > >
I'm curious about this now. I run my monitor at 1280x1024 but it can run 1600x something. Thing is, everything is so small, I can't really see anything. Even the mouse pointer is really small, about the size of a pencil lead. If I know where it is I can find it otherwise I have to push to a corner, then find it and go from there. I need new glasses but can't afford it right now. If I can still run at 1280x1024, this may be worth trying out. I would rather try it while the old way still works rather than wait until it doesn't and run into . . . issues. Dale :-) :-)
