On Sunday 27 February 2011 14:33:55 you wrote: > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 12:38 AM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have unmerged x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse and x11-drivers/xf86-input- > > keyboard and also removed mouse and keyboard from my /etc/make.conf, > > which now only contains: > > > > INPUT_DEVICES="synaptics evdev" > > > > > > However, portage seems to want to pull in x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse > > and > > > x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard: > Hi Mick, > I took another look here. It seems that for Virtualbox that > xf86-input-virtualbox is pulling in xf86-input-mouse. Not sure if > that's a bug in the ebuild or whether it's really required. I haven't > spotted any settable flags that seem to effect it. (Haven't looked > very hard.)
Thanks Mark, I do not have virtualbox on this laptop, so the drivers are not being pulled in because of it. > Anyway, I'm using evdev for X, like you, and like you I'm getting > the old mouse driver for apparently other reasons. I'm not getting > keyboard but you should be able to use the commands below to determine > why that's happening on your system. I checked my world file and the only x11-drivers package I have in there is the radeon-ucode firmware package. Anyway, I just remerged x11-base/xorg-drivers manually (rather than as part of updating world) and guess what? ! It does not try to pull in these two drivers any more: # emerge -1aDv xorg-drivers These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-drivers-1.9 INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics - acecad -aiptek -elographics -fpit -joystick -keyboard* -mouse* -penmount - tslib -virtualbox -vmmouse -void -wacom" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon -apm -ark -ast - chips -cirrus -dummy -epson -fbdev -fglrx (-geode) -glint -i128 (-i740) (- impact) -intel -mach64 -mga -neomagic (-newport) -nouveau -nv -nvidia -r128 - rendition -s3 -s3virge -savage -siliconmotion -sis -sisusb (-sunbw2) (- suncg14) (-suncg3) (-suncg6) (-sunffb) (-sunleo) (-suntcx) -tdfx -tga -trident -tseng -v4l -vesa -via -virtualbox -vmware (-voodoo) (-xgi%)" 0 kB I guess that 'emerge -uaDv world' takes the current state of x11-base/xorg- drivers (which in the past had been merged with INPUT_DEVICES containing both keyboard and mouse) as a higher priority than the current state of my INPUT_DEVICES in /etc/make.conf? Either way, the solution must be therefore to remerge x11-base/xorg-drivers every time the content of INPUT_DEVICES is changed. Thank you all for your help. :) -- Regards, Mick
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