Dale writes: > Well, I upgraded to xorg-server-1.6 and guess what, it was a bust, > AGAIN. I moved xorg.conf, re-emerged the xf86-input-* stuff and it did > do a little better. I bumped the mouse and the pointer moved, then it > locked up and my fans started spinning up so I assume the CPU was going > nuts. I had to use the Aly SysReq keys to get back to a console. So, > I added -hal to my package.use file and re-emerged xorg-server and now > it works fine. > > I hate to say it this way, but hal just plain sucks. I may play with > it some later but I'm getting sick of hal big time. It's starting to > really leave a bad taste in my mouth.
I feel with you :) I recently tried xorg-server-1.6, too, with no success. At the moment I am away for two days from my machine, and so I am doing the BIG update now. xorg-server is upgraded to 1.6.3.901-r2, I followed the upgrade guide and also did the libxcb stuff. I removed then kdeprefix use flag, unmerged all of kde-4.2, updated world, depcleaned. Now emerge @kde-4.3 is running. And then... we will see. Come on, Gentoo, surprise me, and give me a running KDE 4.3 desktop with X and OpenGL and mouse and keyboard. That would be great. Wonko