[solved] Xorg w/ hal mouse and keyboard not working

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ufoRocks · Post by **ufoRocks** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 2:38 pm

After following the directions at en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/HAL my mouse and keyboard no longer work with xorg. I've been looking around trying to find out what to do to my xorg.conf or how to setup the input devices with hal, but I cannot find how. How do I get my mouse and keyboard to work in xorg with hal enabled?

My xorg.conf looks like this: (I already tried with input device sections)

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Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "Simple Layout"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
#	InputDevice    "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
#	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
	ModulePath   "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/OTF"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
#	Load  "dri"
	Load  "record"
	Load  "xtrap"
	Load  "extmod"
	Load  "dbe"
	Load  "glx"
EndSection

# Section "InputDevice"
# 	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
#	Driver      "kbd"
#	Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
#	Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
#	Option "XkbModel" "pc101"
#	Option "XkbLayout" "us"
# EndSection

# Section "InputDevice"
#	Identifier  "Mouse1"
#	Driver      "mouse"
#	Option	    "Protocol" "PS/2"
#	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
#	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
# EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
	ModelName    "Monitor Model"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Card0"
	Driver      "nvidia"
	VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
	BoardName   "GeForce 8600 GT"
	BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Card0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth 24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     1
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     4
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     8
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     15
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 hal0
		Depth     16
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection
EndSection

My xorg was working prior to the installation of hal, but I need xorg working with it. Can anyone please help?

Mike Hunt · Post by **Mike Hunt** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 3:15 pm

Hmm, I never needed to reconfigure HAL. What is the output of rc-status

and

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grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log; tail -n20 /var/log/Xorg.0.log

ufoRocks · Post by **ufoRocks** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 3:50 pm

Ahh it's a hassle without copy and past so I'll shorten the outputs.

rc-status:

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runlevel: default
hald    [started]
...

grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log; tail -n20 /var/log/Xorg.0.log gives a ton of module evdev not found.

grep EVDEV /usr/src/linux/.config says

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COFIG_INPUT_EVDEV=y

Should I:

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emerge xf86-input-evdev

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modprobe evdev

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update-modules

Mike Hunt · Post by **Mike Hunt** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 4:07 pm

ufoRocks wrote:Ahh it's a hassle without copy and past so I'll shorten the outputs.

You can emerge gpm and start it then you could copy/paste in links.

Should I:
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emerge xf86-input-evdev
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modprobe evdev
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update-modules

No because it's not compiled as a module.

But you need xf86-input-evdev. It should have been pulled in as a dependency if you have this in your make.conf

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 INPUT_DEVICES="evdev"

ufoRocks · Post by **ufoRocks** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 4:56 pm

Yes! I think I added evdev after emerging hal I didn't know it would trigger more dependencies. An emerge --deep --newuse -world fixed it all. Thanks!

Mike Hunt · Post by **Mike Hunt** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 5:14 pm

You're welcome.