On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 16:28, Paul Scott <waterho...@ultrasw.com> wrote: > > On Apr 12, 2009, at 4:29 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > >> On Sun,12.Apr.09, 01:40:41, Paul Scott wrote: >> >>>> Just go to sid, should work. As a minimum you probably need >>>> xserver-xorg-video-nv, xserver-xorg-input-evdev and hal.[1] If you >>>> still >>>> have troubles please post the full Xorg.0.log. >>>> >>>> [1] You don't really need hal, but it's more work to get rid of it, >>>> and >>>> yes, the new way does work. >>> >>> >>> I have all of those. Log is attached. I'm not sure how this Mac (my >>> current access to the problem machine) will show it. >> >> Ok, I compared to my log and there are things just missing from yours :/ >> >> I assume hal is running on that machine. Also check the output of >> 'lshal' and look for the devices that have 'input.x11_driver' option set >> (maybe post the relevant entries here), because only such devices are >> eligible for X11 input devices. Maybe hal just doesn't recognize your >> stuff. > > > There are no input.x11 devices in the hal database! I clearly totally > missed some basic changes in Xorg. I have been looking for documentation on > this change and haven't found enough.
That seems really weird. I am pretty sure that if you have a fairly current and correctly installed hal, you should have those entries, whether or not X is making correct use of them. You say you are running "squeeze/sid (mostly sid)." Is your hal the sid version? Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org