Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Keith Dart wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:53:22 -0700 > "Kevin O'Gorman" wrote: > >> This is NOT the way for Linux to make progress in the desktop wars, >> folks. > > Works for me. ;-) > > But its true that Xorg is making some rapid progress. There's some > growi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-10 Thread Dale
Keith Dart wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:47:09 -0500 > Dale wrote: > > >> 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-10 Thread Keith Dart
On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:47:09 -0500 Dale wrote: > 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'

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-10 Thread Keith Dart
On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:53:22 -0700 "Kevin O'Gorman" wrote: > This is NOT the way for Linux to make progress in the desktop wars, > folks. Works for me. ;-) But its true that Xorg is making some rapid progress. There's some growing pains. If you are running Gentoo unstable mask (~) then you are

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-10 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:50 AM, walt wrote: > On 07/10/2009 01:29 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> >> On  9 Jul, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >>> >>> I had tried holding back on xorg-server 1.5, but somewhere in May at >>> least one package got past my version limits and X broke.  Rather than >>> to try to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-10 Thread David
Mine is working fine also, I did have to rebuild all the drivers after every update, using 1.6.1.901-r5 currently; This is a desktop, I have nothing in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ david [02:54 PM] opteron ~ $ ls /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/ evdev_drv.so kbd_drv.so mouse_drv.so Here is xorg.conf a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-10 Thread Dale
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 wrote: >> >>> 090709 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >>> > On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Dale wrote: > >> If all else fails: >> x11-base/x

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 10 July 2009 17:43:44 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Philip Webb wrote: > > 090709 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Dale wrote: > If all else fails: > x11-base/xorg-server -hal > >>> > >>> Is there any other advice? > >> > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-10 Thread Dale
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Philip Webb wrote: > >> 090709 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Dale wrote: > If all else fails: > x11-base/xorg-server -hal > Is there any other advice?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-10 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Philip Webb wrote: > 090709 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Dale 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 fr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-10 Thread Philip Webb
090709 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Dale 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="

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-10 Thread Robin Atwood
On Friday 10 July 2009, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > > Okay, I'm re-emerging hal. I was already using gcc-4.1.2. I still > > have mouse and keyboard emerged, but not mentioned in the xorg.conf. I am coming late to the party here but I not so

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-09 Thread Dale
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > A new HAL made no difference. Sigh. > > Another option occurs to me: get a new video card and stop using the > onboard one. I've barely paid any attention to the threads about ATI > vs NVIDIA, and don't know if there are any others worth considering. > Care to make a s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Dale wrote: > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Dale wrote: >> >>> James wrote: >>> Kevin O'Gorman gmail.com> writes: >> 'emerge -e1 world' did the trick >> >> > Okay, I was hoping for variable mi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Dale wrote: >> James wrote: >>> Kevin O'Gorman gmail.com> writes: >>> >>> >>> > 'emerge -e1 world' did the trick > >>> >>> Okay, I was hoping for variable mileage, but maybe no dice. >>> >>> H

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-09 Thread Dale
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Dale wrote: > >> James wrote: >> >>> Kevin O'Gorman gmail.com> writes: >>> >>> >>> >>> > 'emerge -e1 world' did the trick > > >>> Okay, I was hoping for variable mileage, but maybe no dice. >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Dale wrote: > James wrote: >> Kevin O'Gorman gmail.com> writes: >> >> >> 'emerge -e1 world' did the trick >> >> >>> Okay, I was hoping for variable mileage, but maybe no dice. >>> >> >> Have you rebuilt HAL? >> >> >> It might help >> >> I have rebuilt

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-09 Thread Dale
James wrote: > Kevin O'Gorman gmail.com> writes: > > > >>> 'emerge -e1 world' did the trick >>> > > >> Okay, I was hoping for variable mileage, but maybe no dice. >> > > Have you rebuilt HAL? > > > It might help > > I have rebuilt version hal-0.5.11-r9 > > try to get back