On 02/19/2011 01:46 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [snip] >> >> INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" >> >> Don't forget to enable udev as Mike suggested too. I put mine in the USE >> line. After all, about all hardware now uses udev to see hardware. > > You only need "evdev". "keyboard" and "mouse" are deprecated drivers. > They have bugs that no one appears to be fixing anymore. > >
I am only using evdev and finally got my X Window server working fine. Need to do some fine tuning to get a left-hand mouse working. Amazing that the mouse pad works and so does the mouse pointing keyboard stick. There is little from hal to clean up. Apparently only the /etc/hal directory with some policy files were left there since they did not belong to hal originally. Thanks for the help. This was less painful than I thought. However it exposed a internet connection problem. I am using wicd for wireless and wired internet config. This laptop happened to be in a place where no wired internet is available. Since I use the wicd-client X config utility I was not able to connect to the internet while X was down. There is a wicd-cli but the man page is empty. I guess I will have to get some info on how to use wicd-cli on an emergency like this. -- Valmor
