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Duskye
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 Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2013 5:02 am Post subject: Keyboard and mouse not working after startx |
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I feel like I keep running in circles here...
Anyway, I've spent the past hour trying to get this to work, from remerging things to configuring xorg, and I've gotten nothing to work. Everything is as it should be, and I cannot for the live of me get this working.
I'm still new to gentoo, so I'm not specifically sure how to get my info and post it here, so please help a newb out. |
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eccerr0r
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Usually for new installations, you would use the event driver (EVDEV) to configure your mouse and keyboard. This requires the xf86 driver
evdev to be loaded. This should be the case: Look at your /var/log/Xorg.0.log and see if this is loading.
If this is not loading properly, likely your kernel was not configured properly. You'll need the input devices set up properly during kernel build, and set for the event driver interface.
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Duskye
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| Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2013 11:59 am Post subject: |
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| eccerr0r wrote: | Usually for new installations, you would use the event driver (EVDEV) to configure your mouse and keyboard. This requires the xf86 driver
evdev to be loaded. This should be the case: Look at your /var/log/Xorg.0.log and see if this is loading.
If this is not loading properly, likely your kernel was not configured properly. You'll need the input devices set up properly during kernel build, and set for the event driver interface. |
Well, it looks like things are partly working: If I use a external keyboard and mouse, it works just fine, the ones on the laptop though cease to work after startx.
EDIT: Actually erm.....the keyboard DOES work on the laptop, and so does the mouse....partially. I can click with it, but can't move it with the laptop.... |
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albright
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is xf86-input-synaptics installed?
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Duskye
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| Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2013 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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| albright wrote: | | is xf86-input-synaptics installed? |
Yeah, though I think I got it fixed, forgot to add mouse in USE in make.conf
Anyway, I only need to fix one more thing: Getting my monitor to work with my laptop. So far I've installed xrandr (And also arandr for gui use), and I don't think my VGA output is being recognized, because xrandr -q is only listing my laptop screen, which is listed as Screen 0
Also there is 3 Monitor, Device, and Screen sections in my xorg file, is that normal? |
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beizhuchun
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| Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 3:45 am Post subject: Re: Keyboard and mouse not working after startx |
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| Duskye wrote: | I feel like I keep running in circles here...
Anyway, I've spent the past hour trying to get this to work, from remerging things to configuring xorg, and I've gotten nothing to work. Everything is as it should be, and I cannot for the live of me get this working.
I'm still new to gentoo, so I'm not specifically sure how to get my info and post it here, so please help a newb out. |
Maybe,you need making a change in your kernel configuration to support evdev.
Device Drivers --->
Input device support --->
<*> Event interface
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INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" ## synaptics for touchpad support
in /etc/portage/mak.conf |
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