Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Some hints about evdev versus xorg and your mouse and keyboard

2009-04-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:53:18 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > > There are some strange mnemonics involving elephants, that are harder > > to remember than the key sequence. The easy way to remember the full > > sequence is BUSIER backwards. > > Actually, for me "Raising Elefants Is So Utterly Bori

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Some hints about evdev versus xorg and your mouse and keyboard

2009-04-18 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: > Neil Bothwick writes: > > >> On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:09:22 -0500, Dale wrote: >> I wonder if magic sysrq would have worked? I don't think I tried it when my keyboard became dead. >> It should do, because that goes direct to th kernel, and it is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Some hints about evdev versus xorg and your mouse and keyboard

2009-04-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:09:22 -0500, Dale wrote: > > > I wonder if magic sysrq would have worked? I don't think I tried it > > > when my keyboard became dead. > > It should do, because that goes direct to th kernel, and it is only X > that cannot read the keyboard. > > > I c

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Some hints about evdev versus xorg and your mouse and keyboard

2009-04-11 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:58:40 -0500, Dale wrote: > > >> No, I don't have another machine to ssh in. I wish I did. It's have a >> working keyboard or hit the reset button/pull the plug. >> > > Did you try the Magic SysRq keys? That's a lot friendlier than cutting > th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Some hints about evdev versus xorg and your mouse and keyboard

2009-04-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:09:22 -0500, Dale wrote: > > I wonder if magic sysrq would have worked? I don't think I tried it > > when my keyboard became dead. It should do, because that goes direct to th kernel, and it is only X that cannot read the keyboard. > I couldn't find where I wrote those key

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Some hints about evdev versus xorg and your mouse and keyboard

2009-04-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:58:40 -0500, Dale wrote: > No, I don't have another machine to ssh in. I wish I did. It's have a > working keyboard or hit the reset button/pull the plug. Did you try the Magic SysRq keys? That's a lot friendlier than cutting the power. -- Neil Bothwick Loose bits sin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Some hints about evdev versus xorg and your mouse and keyboard

2009-04-10 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Dale wrote: > >> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> >>> walt wrote: >>> [...] HTF the average user is supposed to figure all this out for himself is beyond me. I'm thankful for the expert help I got. >>> Ge

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Some hints about evdev versus xorg and your mouse and keyboard

2009-04-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Dale wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> walt wrote: >>> [...] >>> HTF the average user is supposed to figure all this out for himself >>> is beyond me. I'm thankful for the expert help I got. >> >> Gentoo is not for the average user. We had discussions in the pa

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Some hints about evdev versus xorg and your mouse and keyboard

2009-04-10 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > walt wrote: >> [...] >> HTF the average user is supposed to figure all this out for himself >> is beyond me. I'm thankful for the expert help I got. > > Gentoo is not for the average user. We had discussions in the past > where GUIs were discussed to make these things au

[gentoo-user] Re: Some hints about evdev versus xorg and your mouse and keyboard

2009-04-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
walt wrote: [...] HTF the average user is supposed to figure all this out for himself is beyond me. I'm thankful for the expert help I got. Gentoo is not for the average user. We had discussions in the past where GUIs were discussed to make these things automagic, but most Gentoo users here

[gentoo-user] Re: Some hints about evdev versus xorg and your mouse and keyboard

2009-04-10 Thread walt
walt wrote: ... If you have an unusual mouse, as I do, you will need to create a new fdi file in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ to get it working properly. Oops, forgot to mention /usr/bin/lshal, which will tell you what hald thinks it knows about your hardware. As one more example, here is what lshal s