Hello,

I recently installed Gentoo on my desktop & have been attempting to get Xorg working properly.

I ran the "Xorg -configure" tool, but when attempting to test the configuration file by using X (X -config /root/xorg.conf.new), X starts properly & I see the dotted black / white screen & X cursor.

The issue is that I have no keyboard or mouse input (I tried this with 2 separate keyboards, one USB & one PS2. My PS/2 keyboard LED's actually turned off when testing X).

Basically, I need to restart my system whenever I attempt to test my Xorg.conf.

I checked the file (don't currently have it accessible, as I'm at work), and found nothing wrong with the configuration.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated,

Thanks.

Hi, posting the xorg.conf file would help to see what might be wrong with it.

I have found that auto X config files tend not to work very well...

Hammett, I've found that the newer versions of Xorg use evdev, and therefore need it as a USE flag (I believe?) and most definitely under the INPUT_DEVICES--for example INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev". I compiled my kernel, as well as xorg-server without evdev support.

After re-emerging with the proper flags, I was successfully able to move my mouse & use both keyboards.