From: realnc@arcor.de   
      
   AZ Nomad wrote:   
   > I allowed portage to upgrade my system to xorg-server 1.5 and now I   
   > have lost all input.   
   >   
   > I did some googling, but things are still not working right.   
   > xorg's log file says it is now using evdev for input.  It seems to be   
   > ignoring my old serverlayout.   
   >   
   >   
   > Two things broken with evdev:   
   >     1) hal didn't find keyboard or mouse   
   >        /etc/hal/fdi/policy is empty   
   >        I copied /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-x11-input.fdi   
   > to /etc/hal/fdi/policty   
   >   
   >     2) xorg can't find evdev driver.  WTF do I have an xorg server   
   > that insists on using evdev yet doesn't include it?  I couldn't find a   
   > use flag to control wether evdev is built.   
   >        from the tail of /var/log/X*0.log:   
   >        (II) config/hal: Adding input device AT Translated Set 2 keyboard   
   >        (II) LoadModule: "evdev"   
   >   
   >        (WW) Warning, couldn't open module evdev   
   >        (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"   
   >        (EE) Failed to load module "evdev" (module does not exist, 0)   
   >        (EE) No input driver matching evdev'   
   >        (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed   
   >   
      
   Evdev needs two things: 1) kernel support (Input device support ---> <*>   
   Event interface) and 2) the x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev package installed.   
      
   Also, using HAL for this is purely optional.  I'm not using it and   
   continue to manually specify mouse and keyboard settings in xorg.conf.   
   My setup is the following (you might want to adjust or ignore some of   
   the settings; the crucial part here is the "AutoAddDevices" "false"   
   option which disables HAL for keyboard and mouse):   
      
      Section "ServerFlags"   
        Option "AutoAddDevices" "false"   
      EndSection   
      
      Section "InputDevice"   
        Identifier "Keyboard1"   
        Driver     "kbd"   
        Option     "AutoRepeat" "250 30"   
        Option     "XkbRules"   "xorg"   
        Option     "XkbModel"   "microsoftinet"   
      EndSection   
      
      Section "InputDevice"   
        Identifier      "Mouse1"   
        Driver          "evdev"   
        Option          "Protocol"      "auto"   
        Option          "Device"        "/dev/input/event4"   
        Option          "AccelerationProfile" "2"   
        Option          "AdaptiveDeceleration" "2"   
        Option          "FilterHalflife" "5"   
        Option          "VelocityCoupling" "0.15"   
        Option          "FilterChainLength" "8"   
      EndSection   
      
      Section "ServerLayout"   
        # ...   
        InputDevice "Mouse1"    "CorePointer"   
        InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"   
      EndSection   
      
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