Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Philip Webb<[email protected]> wrote: > >> 090709 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> >>>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Dale<[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> If all else fails: >>>>> x11-base/xorg-server -hal >>>>> >>>> Is there any other advice? >>>> >>> A new HAL made no difference. Sigh. >>> >> I ran into this twice, first on my frontline machine, then on the stand-by. >> The solution was 'USE="-hal" emerge xorg-server', then remerge all drivers. >> There was a Gentoo help doc re it, which gave this as the simplest option. >> >> 'evdev' is a separate matter: you need to include it in your kernel, >> than you can simplify your drivers. >> >> HTH >> > > Evdev has been included in my kernels throughout this mess. It hasn't > helped. The Gentoo doc on the upgrade was a bit scetchy about > configuring HAL; now that I find that disabling HAL in xorg is the > solution, I suspect that the underlying problem is HAL configuration. > After all, there's nothing at all special about my mouse or keyboard. > > Why should we have to configure HAL manually? Since the stone ages, > Linux installations have determined what keyboard we have and have set > things up for us. How different can PS/2 or USB mice be? > > SO: if anyone succeeded with xorg and HAL, with a USA keyboard and a > wheel mouse, would please tell me about their HAL config, I'd sure > love to see it. > > ++ kevin > >
Same here. I have a old keyboard that has been around for a loooong time. It's a Dell Quietkey. My mouse is a decent Logitech that cost about $20.00 or so a few years ago. It worked with Mandrake and Gentoo all this time then someone comes up with a mouse trap that don't like it. I'm with you. Dale :-) :-)
