On 19/11/12 02:13, Frank Peters wrote:
Let's consider a case in point from the Gentoo portage tree.
I have lots of ebooks in DJVU format, and I really can appreciate the
excellent DJVU reader called djview. However, the latest update of
djview came as quite a surprise. Apparently, dbus is
On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 18:21:01 -0500
Phil Turmel phi...@turmel.org wrote:
I'm not inclined to
fork Xorg, so I've sucked it up and joined the udev/evdev world.
The problem was a faulty keyboard. In retrospect it would seem obvious,
but the fact that I could regain control by stopping X and the
On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 23:13:30 -0600
Steven Lembark lemb...@wrkhors.com wrote:
Q: What do you need the custom xconfig for?
You might find that life is easier if you remove
the xorg.conf, switch to evdev as the input,
[The following is only an innocent spiel, and is not intended
to be in
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.net wrote:
On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 23:13:30 -0600
Steven Lembark lemb...@wrkhors.com wrote:
Q: What do you need the custom xconfig for?
You might find that life is easier if you remove
the xorg.conf, switch to evdev as the
On 11/17/2012 02:17 PM, Frank Peters wrote:
[trim /]
IMO, udev is the most twisted and unnecessary piece of cr** to have
ever been foisted upon the Linux world. It is apparently the brainchild
of the Freedesktop project, who are always busily creating more bloated
graphical extravaganzas in
On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 23:25:13 -0600
Steven Lembark lemb...@wrkhors.com wrote:
... might not even use a CRT any more,
I really should leave this alone but I just can't resist.
Actually, on this machine (with the keyboard problem) I still
use a CRT. The reason is that I do a lot of image
Hello,
Lately I have been experiencing a strange problem. Under X my USB keyboard
will suddenly stop working. If I press some keys they will not appear in an
X console or in any other application. There is no warning. It just
will sporadically stop working. Usually, if I wait for several
What input drivers you're using?
2012/11/14 Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.net
Hello,
Lately I have been experiencing a strange problem. Under X my USB keyboard
will suddenly stop working. If I press some keys they will not appear in
an
X console or in any other application. There
Am 14.11.2012 20:18, schrieb Frank Peters:
Hello,
Lately I have been experiencing a strange problem. Under X my USB keyboard
will suddenly stop working. If I press some keys they will not appear in an
X console or in any other application. There is no warning. It just
will sporadically
On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:31:50 -0200
Luis Gustavo Vilela de Oliveira luisgustavo.vil...@gmail.com wrote:
What input drivers you're using?
xf86-input-mouse-1.8.1
xf86-input-keyboard-1.6.2
Also, I am not using the auto configuration but I have a custom X config file.
Frank Peters
Try use only evdev instead. Looks like is some problem with the input drive
that u are using.
2012/11/14 Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.net
On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:31:50 -0200
Luis Gustavo Vilela de Oliveira luisgustavo.vil...@gmail.com wrote:
What input drivers you're using?
Frank Peters, mused, then expounded:
On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:43:47 +0100
Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote:
It's a software problem. When the keyboard stops I can immediately
shut down X and it will be working. The hardware is not the fault.
Rebuild your hardware drivers -
On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:45:27 -0500, Frank Peters
frank.pet...@comcast.net wrote:
For the moment, at least, my solution will be to
stop and then restart X.
If I may, I suggest that you try the evdev solution that some others have
pointed out. The package is xf86-input-evdev, and it replaced
On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 14:18:46 -0500
Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.net wrote:
My system is updated daily and I use only the
Fvwm window manager (no Gnome or K).
With a similar setup I've had no problems using
evdev. The first step was to unlink xorg.conf.
At that point everything Just
On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:43:47 +0100
Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote:
I think you just have to bite the bullet and start swapping parts of
your setup until the error disappears: Try a different keyboard, or a
different USB port. Use different (older + newer) versions of
On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:06:54 -0500
Randy Barlow ra...@electronsweatshop.com wrote:
If I may, I suggest that you try the evdev solution that some others have
pointed out.
Yes, I have known about evdev for a long time, but since everything has
worked very well on my system I have had no
On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:11:12 +
Steven Lembark lemb...@wrkhors.com wrote:
In my experience, purely random flakeyness
is more likely to be a hardware issue.
In any case, I'm happily running with fvwm 2.6.3,
INPUT_DEVICES=evdev, and no xorg.conf whatever.
I have a spare keyboard
On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:08:27 -0500
Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.net wrote:
Also, I am not using the auto configuration but I have a custom X
config file.
Q: What do you need the custom xconfig for?
You might find that life is easier if you remove
the xorg.conf, switch to evdev as the
On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:45:27 -0500
Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.net wrote:
It's a software problem. When the keyboard stops I can immediately
shut down X and it will be working. The hardware is not the fault.
Could be that the software is getting kicked into a lockup
state by flakey
On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:48:38 -0500
Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.net wrote:
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
If that were true we'd be driving Model-T's;
hell, we'd be walking.
Since you probably run something later than a
386, might have replaced your MFM or RLL drives,
might not even
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