Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 10 July 2009 17:43:44 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Philip Webb<purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote: >> >>> 090709 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >>> >>>>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Dale<rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> If all else fails: >>>>>> x11-base/xorg-server -hal >>>>>> >>>>> Is there any other advice? >>>>> >>>> A new HAL made no difference. Sigh. >>>> >>> I ran into this twice, first on my frontline machine, then on the >>> stand-by. The solution was 'USE="-hal" emerge xorg-server', then remerge >>> all drivers. There was a Gentoo help doc re it, which gave this as the >>> simplest option. >>> >>> 'evdev' is a separate matter: you need to include it in your kernel, >>> than you can simplify your drivers. >>> >>> HTH >>> >> Evdev has been included in my kernels throughout this mess. It hasn't >> helped. The Gentoo doc on the upgrade was a bit scetchy about >> configuring HAL; now that I find that disabling HAL in xorg is the >> solution, I suspect that the underlying problem is HAL configuration. >> After all, there's nothing at all special about my mouse or keyboard. >> >> Why should we have to configure HAL manually? Since the stone ages, >> Linux installations have determined what keyboard we have and have set >> things up for us. How different can PS/2 or USB mice be? >> >> SO: if anyone succeeded with xorg and HAL, with a USA keyboard and a >> wheel mouse, would please tell me about their HAL config, I'd sure >> love to see it. >> > > I run latest unstable here with a regular USA layout on a Dell XPS M1530 with > nvidia driver, hal and evdev. The HAL config is empty apart from a policy > file > for a touch pad, and it's a dual-screen setup. Here's my xorg.conf: > > # egrep -v '^$|^#' /etc/X11/xorg.conf > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "Layout0" > Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 > EndSection > Section "Files" > EndSection > Section "Module" > Load "dbe" > Load "extmod" > Load "glx" > EndSection > Section "ServerFlags" > Option "Xinerama" "0" > EndSection > Section "Monitor" > # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid > Identifier "Monitor0" > VendorName "Unknown" > ModelName "Samsung SyncMaster" > HorizSync 30.0 - 81.0 > VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0 > Option "DPMS" > EndSection > Section "Device" > Identifier "Device0" > Driver "nvidia" > VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" > BoardName "GeForce 8600M GT" > EndSection > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Screen0" > Device "Device0" > Monitor "Monitor0" > DefaultDepth 24 > Option "NoLogo" "True" > Option "TwinView" "1" > Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0" > Option "metamodes" "CRT: nvidia-auto-select @1440x900 +1920+0, > DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0+0" > SubSection "Display" > Depth 24 > EndSubSection > EndSection > > It all JustWorks for me, I assume in my case at least it's working as > designed. > >
What gets me is this, I even did a fresh install on another hard drive, it don't work there either. hal and friends were included from the very start of the install too. Either I am missing something that is not in the guide or it just don't like my hardware. My mouse is a old P/S2 type mouse. It's not even as complicated as a USB thingy. Dale :-) :-)
