On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:24 AM, Keith Dart<[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:18:35 -0700 > Keith Dart <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Set the "hal" use flag and emerge x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev. See if >> that helps you. > > Also make sure you have this in your make.conf: > > > INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" > > Remove mouse and keyboard sections in your xorg.conf file also. > > The evdev and HAL are supposed to make X much simpler to set up and > use. ;-)
For me, at least, it was impossible use. Useless is more like it. I am using evdev, but not compiling xorg for HAL. I'm not sure how that works out in detail, because hald is still running and the "hal" use flag is in use everywhere but xorg-server. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
