Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-21 Thread Mick
On Monday 21 February 2011 04:07:20 Valmor de Almeida wrote: > otherwise my keyboard keybindings do not work. I have also tried the > pointer InputClass outside the xorg.conf file, that is, inside the > xorg.conf.d/ directory. As long as the 10-synaptics.conf file is read > first, the keyboard con

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-20 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 02/20/2011 10:03 AM, Mick wrote: [snip] > > Have you had a look at: > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.8-upgrade-guide.xml Yes. Got some info there. > > Also, have a read of the InputClass section in man xorg.conf and the files in > /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-20 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 02/20/2011 12:53 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 14:48:17 -0500, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > >> 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 ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 14:48:17 -0500, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-20 Thread Mick
On Sunday 20 February 2011 00:25:24 Valmor de Almeida wrote: > On 02/19/2011 06:59 PM, Mick wrote: > [snip] > > > On two laptops of mine evdev causes untold confusion with the touchpad > > and second language selection for the keyboard. I *have* to use the > > synaptics and keyboard input drivers

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 02/19/2011 06:59 PM, Mick wrote: [snip] > > On two laptops of mine evdev causes untold confusion with the touchpad and > second language selection for the keyboard. I *have* to use the synaptics > and > keyboard input drivers. I'm also using mouse (because it doesn't hurt I > guess). > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Mick
On Saturday 19 February 2011 20:41:42 Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 02/19/2011 10:14 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > >> Should I be enabling udev globally in make.conf? I'm currently not. I > >> do have it on xorg-server so I'm not seeing the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 02/19/2011 10:14 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> Should I be enabling udev globally in make.conf? I'm currently not. I >> do have it on xorg-server so I'm not seeing the OP's issue, but I >> never wanted to get into making my own udev rule

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 02/19/2011 08:32 PM, Dale wrote: >> >> Mark Knecht wrote: >>> >> 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"

[gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/19/2011 10:41 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/19/2011 10:14 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: Should I be enabling udev globally in make.conf? I'm currently not. I do have it on xorg-server so I'm not seeing the OP's issue, but I never wante

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 02/19/2011 03:41 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> On 02/19/2011 10:14 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > >>> Should I be enabling udev globally in make.conf? I'm currently not. I >>> do have it on xorg-server so I'm not seeing the OP's issue, but I >

[gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/19/2011 10:14 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/19/2011 08:32 PM, Dale wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: 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 h

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: You only need "evdev". "keyboard" and "mouse" are deprecated drivers. They have bugs that no one appears to be fixing anymore. I been wondering about that but never saw emerge complain so I left it in there, after all, it is working so why try to fix it. I'll r

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Valmor de Almeida
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"

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 02/19/2011 01:24 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> On 02/19/2011 07:44 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: [snip] >>> emerge --depclean -vp >>> Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to >>> the following required packages not being i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 02/19/2011 07:44 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: >> >> [...] >> 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

[gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/19/2011 08:32 PM, Dale wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: [...] 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.con

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Dale
Valmor de Almeida wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/19/2011 07:44 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: [...] 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 sta

[gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/19/2011 08:24 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/19/2011 07:44 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: [...] 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

[gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/19/2011 07:44 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: [...] 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 sc