(Solved) Evdev not found.

rabcor · Apprentice Joined: 05 Apr 2012 Posts: 200

Heres pretty much everything i did.

I updated portage.

I unmerged xorg-server

I emerged xorg-x11

I completely updated my world and then did a depclean. Now when i start X i get this.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 10:26 pm Post subject:

rabcor,

What is listed in your INPUT_DEVICES= ?
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rabcor · Apprentice Joined: 05 Apr 2012 Posts: 200

Scimmia22 · n00b Joined: 24 Sep 2012 Posts: 10

shot in the dark: is evdev enabled in the kernel as well?

CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV=

rabcor · Apprentice Joined: 05 Apr 2012 Posts: 200

grepping .config gives me CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV=y
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rabcor · Apprentice Joined: 05 Apr 2012 Posts: 200

I tried googling, rather than just searching the forum, i did find a thread on this forum in a language i do not understand with the same issue... but unfortunately... don't understand the language, i also found a similar thread where the problem was withing xorg.conf, but that was not the case here. maybe i'm just bad at searching?

portage wasn't telling me anything special at the end of the emerge. except "etc/conf.d/xdm needs updating" which i just update. it also says my nvidia drivers got corrupted, so i just... reinstall them, and fixed. it also once gave me that xorg-drivers was corrupted, and likewise i just reinstalled that and it disappeared, if it gives me that something is corrupt that i'm not using i run depclean.

I usually read it if the emerge says something, for example it at some point gave me that something was corrupt.... so i fixed it with depclean, etc.
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krinn · Watchman Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 7470

ah yes sad, everyone knows google sucks

rabcor · Apprentice Joined: 05 Apr 2012 Posts: 200

You the yahoo kind of person? everyone has their preferences i guess...

If you're trying to tell me about this https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-891314-start-0.html i already just said, the solution in there did not work for me, i tried erasing everything from my xorg.conf except the required lines (as stated in that thread.) but all for nothing.
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Jaglover · Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2012 1:08 am Post subject:

You could light up six candles, dress up in black robe and call for superior power. Or you could check if x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev is present in your system. If in doubt you could recompile it with emerge -1 against your current Xorg sources.
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rabcor · Apprentice Joined: 05 Apr 2012 Posts: 200

>>> No outdated packages were found on your system. definetly is there.

But because i'm having a problem I tried doing emerge -1 x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev as you suggested and that saved me.

Thanks a lot jaglover. very much appreciated.
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Jaglover · Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2012 2:13 am Post subject:

You are welcome.

Tip: Install app-portage/eix. Then you can run