Hi all, First, I have to thank you *all* for your patience with me. I'm not a developer and my formal computer training is limited. However, I'm not stupid (I know no one has implied that), but I get a little frustrated when I've done something successfully a half dozen times and now it doesn't work. The difference with this Gentoo install is the nvidia card. I've always used ATI cards and after this experience, I think I still prefer them. Anyway, ....
Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 08:50 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote: >> Iain Buchanan wrote: >>> On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 00:32 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote: >>> >>>> Mouse support is compiled into my kernel (genkernel) >>>> Although the section for keyboard is there, there isn't a relevant >>>> choice to pick, but I assume that's because this is a laptop. >>> are you able to post your kernel .config file somewhere? Perhaps >>> there's a problem there... >> I'll try, but it won't be until tonight. > > pastebin is good for this kind of thing (pastebin.com). Just let us > know the number! I think I *may* have solved my problem. I had nvidia (NV2) support built into the kernel. I rebuilt the kernel without nvidia support, removed xorg-x11 and removed nvidia-drivers. Then I did emerge --update --deep nvidia-drivers. A bunch of stuff was updated because of newer versions being available, but a number of things were installed - like kbd and mouse. I don't know maybe having nvidia support built into the kernel was preventing the xorg drivers for mouse and keyboard being installed. I *did* read the nvidia guide, but I must have misunderstood because I thougt that only older nv drivers were incompatible with newer cards. Anyway, now I'm emerging KDE. Will let you know officially how it goes. Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
