On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Valmor de Almeida <val.gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I had a working laptop with xorg 1.7 using hal; including usb mouse > (left hand swapped buttons), synaptics for a mouse pad, hotplug > monitors in a virtual screen, etc. For this to work I had a > hand-configured xorg.conf file and additional hal policy > configurations. > > I have just updated xorg to 1.9.4 with USE -hal and removed hal in > this order (also needed to remove hal from the default run level). I > tried startx using the existing xorg.conf and X does not start > correctly, I have no mouse and a frozen screen (no keyboard) with the > arrow cursor placed in the middle of the screen. I also tried to start > X without an xorg.conf; same problem. > > Here are the outputs of some commands: > > emerge --info > Portage 2.1.9.25 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.4.4, > glibc-2.11.2.-r3, 2.6.36-gentoo-r5 x86_64) > > emerge -pv --newuse --update --tree --with-bdeps=y world > Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 kB > > emerge --depclean -vp > Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to > the following required packages not being installed: > > sys-apps/hal pulled in by: > x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics-1.2.1 > > In make.conf I have: > > USE="-hal ...." > > INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" > VIDEO_CARDS="intel" > > Thanks for your help. > > -- > Valmor
I'm guessing that you might need to use the older keyboard and mouse drivers instead of evdev. Just a guess though. - Mark
