Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-10 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Synopsis: I suspect this setup is too specific -- will it work for both wheel mice and non-wheel mice, and for non-MS keyboards? On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 10 Jul, Dale wrote: > >> Same thing here.  I just tried again to get hal, evdev and all his >> "drive me cra

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-10 Thread Dale
Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 10 Jul, Dale wrote: > > >> Same thing here. I just tried again to get hal, evdev and all his >> "drive me crazy" friends to work, it doesn't. It appears to me that hal >> will be disabled in package.use for xorg-server FOREVER. I'm sick of >> messing with evdev. I

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-10 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 10 Jul, Dale wrote: > Same thing here. I just tried again to get hal, evdev and all his > "drive me crazy" friends to work, it doesn't. It appears to me that hal > will be disabled in package.use for xorg-server FOREVER. I'm sick of > messing with evdev. I'm waiting on something better to c

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Dale wrote: > Same thing here. I just tried again to get hal, evdev and all his > "drive me crazy" friends to work, it doesn't. It appears to me that hal > will be disabled in package.use for xorg-server FOREVER. I'm sick of > messing with evdev. I'm waiting on

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-10 Thread Dale
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:18 AM, Keith Dart wrote: > >> On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 20:03:36 -0700 >> "Kevin O'Gorman" wrote: >> >> >>> I had tried holding back on xorg-server 1.5, but somewhere in May at >>> least one package got past my version limits and X broke. Rather

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-10 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:18 AM, Keith Dart wrote: > On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 20:03:36 -0700 > "Kevin O'Gorman" wrote: > >> I had tried holding back on xorg-server 1.5, but somewhere in May at >> least one package got past my version limits and X broke.  Rather than >> to try to revert, I thought surely

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-10 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:24 AM, Keith Dart wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:18:35 -0700 > Keith Dart 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"

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-10 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 9 Jul, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I had tried holding back on xorg-server 1.5, but somewhere in May at > least one package got past my version limits and X broke. Rather than > to try to revert, I thought surely by now, X would be fixed. Sigh. > > In another thread, after spending 2 months with

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-10 Thread Keith Dart
On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:18:35 -0700 Keith Dart 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.

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-10 Thread Keith Dart
On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 20:03:36 -0700 "Kevin O'Gorman" wrote: > I had tried holding back on xorg-server 1.5, but somewhere in May at > least one package got past my version limits and X broke. Rather than > to try to revert, I thought surely by now, X would be fixed. Sigh. Set the "hal" use flag a

[gentoo-user] xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I had tried holding back on xorg-server 1.5, but somewhere in May at least one package got past my version limits and X broke. Rather than to try to revert, I thought surely by now, X would be fixed. Sigh. In another thread, after spending 2 months without a working X server, I got KDM to start.