Re: Help, please! xserver or evdev and laptop keyboard

2008-08-05 Thread kwhiskerz
On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:40:24 +0930, Tim wrote: If having one makes it work, then have one. You don't not have to have one. I do see your point about not having to do something special to make things work, but I wouldn't fret too much about having an xorg.conf file. I liked not having the

Re: Help, please! xserver or evdev and laptop keyboard

2008-08-04 Thread Antonio Olivares
I was away last week and updated my laptop around last Wednesday while on vacation (bad move). I noticed that xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.4.99-905.2.20080702 and the corresponding xorg-x11-server-common were updated. I am not sure whether evdev was also updated then, or whether it had been

Re: Help, please! xserver or evdev and laptop keyboard

2008-08-04 Thread kwhiskerz
I tried that, but it refused to start X with the generated file. The message said something about some intel module not existing. Very strange, as that module is not loaded, now that I have sort of solved the problem. What I did was sftp the old archived xorg.conf from my desktop and now the

Re: Help, please! xserver or evdev and laptop keyboard

2008-08-04 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 12:59 -0600, kwhiskerz wrote: I am not sure whether evdev was also updated then, or whether it had been updated a week or so earlier (if so, then it is not the problem, but most likely the xserver would be). If the update was through yum, then /var/log/yum.log will list

Re: Help, please! xserver or evdev and laptop keyboard

2008-08-04 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 15:46 -0600, kwhiskerz wrote: The problem remains, however, as one is not supposed to use an xorg.conf at all, and it was working just fine without right up until last week when I installed those updates (likely the xserver ones, I think). If having one makes it work,