On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 18:53:08 +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:

> Hendrik Boom schrieb:
>> Still having trouble with my first gentoo install.  Now X fails to come
>> up.
>> 
>> The relevant message seems to be;
>> 
>> # grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log
>>         (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
>> (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
>> (EE) Failed to load module "kbd" (module does not exist, 0)
>> (EE) No Input driver matching `kbd'
>> 
>> Presumably this indicates something isn't installed you -- but what is it
>> I have to emerge to get module 'kbd'?  Or is it more complicated than
>> that?  Would it help to post a batch of config files and the entire log
>> file, or would that just be wasting bandwidth?
>> 
>> -- hendrik
>> 
> 
> Have you enabled the keyboard USE flag under INPUT_DEVICES in
> xorg-xserver? You can set this in make.conf.
> 

make.conf ends with the lines

INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse"
VIDEO_CARDS="radeon"

Is this what you mean?

> For information take a look here:
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml
> Step 2 Installing Xorg.
> 
> Have you also enabled keyboard support in your kernel?
>

I use genkernel to create the kernel.  Mind you, I ran genkernel in a
chroot under Debian Etch.  How can I tell whether keyboard support has
been enabled?

It is possible to log in as root on a text console as soon
as gentoo finishes booting (without X, of course).  Is this the keyboard
support you mean, or is this something else?

-- hendrik

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