Dale: >Did my etc-update and went to log into KDE. No keyboard. No >mouse. No nothing. I knew the new xorg-server update was going to make >me change a few things but I thought I would be ABLE to change the >thing.
*g* Today 'emerge --sync' followed by 'emerge -uDN world' changed my xorg to 1.5. After 'startx' i had my usual icewm screen but no working mouse or keyboard. >I had to unplug the computer then add softlevel=boot to get to >where I could even fix the stupid thing. I preferred ssh from another computer. ;) >While I was trying to recover and reading, it appears I have to update >my kernel for this thing to work. That depends. Look in 'sudo make menuconfig' at Device Drivers->Input device support for Event interface. If available and unchecked, select it and recompile your kernel. I had done so because it was mentioned in the 'Xorg 1.5 Upgrade Guide', http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.5-upgrade-guide.xml Wasn't enough, though. ----- Xorg.0.log ----- (EE) Failed to load module "evdev" (module does not exist, 0) --------------- But 'modprobe evdev' succeeded. *g* After pulling out some hairs and examining 'emerge -pv xorg-server' closer i changed ----- /etc/make.conf ----- INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" ---------------- to ----- /etc/make.conf ----- INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" --------------- and recompiled xorg-server. Now i had working mouse and keyboard under X. Then i noticed that my german keyboard layout was gone. The Upgrade Guide was not very clear in this point. At least for me. Time for a break, so i decided to disable hal for a while, drink some coffee and smoke some pipes. ;) ----- /etc/X11/xorg.conf ----- Section "ServerFlags" Option "AutoAddDevices" "false" EndSection --------------- Now i have commented out these lines because i found a way for my german keyboard layout. Hm, just noticed that i have also to do something for my compose key. Sigh. Hartmut
