For my K/V/M (keyboard, video, mouse) to all work snappy with the new Xorg, I made sure to include these items in my /etc/make.conf:
INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse joystick" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia v4l vesa" My Logitech mouse was acting crappy until I added those lines. As always, YMMV. -Jeff Donnie Berkholz wrote: > James wrote: >> Still in /etc/X11/xkb the symbolic link flashes red >> indicated that /usr/lib/X11/xkb does not exit. > > I've never heard of /etc/X11/xkb, and I don't have it on my systems. Get > rid of it. > >> KDM will not fire up automactically. So I log >> in and run 'startx' and here are the errors I get: >> >> 'failed to load module "kbd" (modules does not exist, 0)' > > Perhaps you don't have the keyboard driver installed. Install > portage-utils and run `qlist -I x11-drivers` -- this should get > installed if you have configured the INPUT_DEVICES variable properly in > make.conf, or even if you left it blank (Assuming you aren't on a > super-old profile). > >> and >> 'Cannot open device /dev/input/mice No such file or dir' >> >> On the mouse issue 'ls /dev/input' shows only this dir: >> by-path > > Sounds like your kernel's missing mouse support, or you've specifically > configured udev to do something other than the default behavior. > >> On my other xorg 7.0 systems I get this: >> # ls /dev/input >> event0 event1 event2 mice mouse0 mouse1 > > Thanks, > Donnie > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
