Philip Webb wrote: > For the record, in case anyone else runs into this, > following the Gentoo Upgrade Guild, I chose course (2) to deal with HAL, > ie I compiled 'USE="-hal" emerge xorg-server'. > > I encountered 3 problems. > (1) xf86-video-intel-2.6.3-r1 failed to compile > with a message implying lack of a file 'xf86dri.h' : > since I'm using an Nvidia card, not the Intel chip on the mobo, > that seems not to be relevant for my needs. > (2) after rebooting & entering 'startx', I got a 'no screen' error, > which was solved by commenting out the line incl "RgbPath" in xorg.conf . > (3) when X finally started, my mouse didn't work: oh no ! -- > first, I followed the 3rd course from the Upgrade Guide > & add 'Option "AutoAddDevices" "false"' to xorg.conf > (it shouldn't be needed if you follow course (2) above); > that didn't change anything, so I looked at my handwritten list > of the pkgs I had installed, which I had numbered as usual, > & noticed that 'xf86-input-mouse' was compiled before 'xorg-server': > had the former failed to notice '-hal' used with the latter ? -- > so I recompiled the mouse module & now everything is working as it should. > > Yet again, I was helped by NOT doing a blanket 'emerge world', > but compiling (groups of) pkgs individually & making a note of what I did. > Also, I could see what was going wrong & fix it much more easily, > as I don't boot straight into X , but to a raw console first. > Finally, it helps (if you use KDE) to enable keypad cursor movements, > tho' I didn't find out how to emulate a mouse click that way. > > HTH & comments welcome. > Thank you, Philip. Your suggestions worked perfectly for me on an amd64 machine.
John -- John P. Burkett Department of Economics University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881-0808 USA phone (401) 874-9195
