startx problems after update

ground0 · Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 7:40 pm Post subject: startx problems after update

I had installed gentoo base system a few months ago. I could test "startx" command and it was working. I could move mouse, and pressing Ctrl_Alt_Bksp woud exit (as I had made the change to hal policy in the /etc/ folder for this. (I stopped building up the system fully because of studies) But after recent update, dispatch-conf, depclean, revdep-rebuild, everything seemed fine. But now when I test "startx" I see black and white squares, but mouse does not move. Also, pressing Ctrl_Alt_Bksp does not kill X session. I checked the hal policy file in /etc/, it's not changed: it still has this Ctrl_Alt_Bksp addition to terminate X session. But somehow the system does not pick it up.

Also, another thing I realized after update, was that the root name changed to "localhost". Before when I logged as root it had the name I had chosen.

I think this might be because of the changes to the config files; because I chose to use new config files for all of them. Still I have no clue how to solve these problems.

Any help would be appreciated.

ferreirafm · Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 7:52 pm Post subject:

Hi,
I suspected that you haven't edit your xorg.conf appropriately.
See the xorg-server migration guide.
The xorg-server need the evdev kernel setting for the hot-plug way.
G'Luck

ground0 · Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 9:18 pm Post subject:

Thanks a lot! This seems to be the exact solution.