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Since a time ago, I had some strange mouse (and sound) problems. I was using a 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 kernel compiled manually with everything working. The only strange thing was some message appearing at boot time (more exactly when /etc/init.d/alsasound was started) pointing me at the fact that there was a problem with the program reading the file "/etc/asound.state". I took a look into that file, but all I saw were @'s and other strange signs, so it seemed it was a binary one. Normally there are no binary files in /etc, so I thought it might be corrupted and I removed the file. (In fact: it is the file where your mixer levels are stored, so removing it couldn't cause any problems) Since then, sound wasn't working anymore.

Another problem I had, was when I compiled a new 2.6.12 kernel starting from the old .config file and using "make menuconfig". When booting that kernel, my USB-mouse didn't work anymore. Touchpad and the "clit" (that little "button" between the g and h on some laptopkeyboards) worked perfect. It even didn't work anymore when I recompiled the old 2.6.11 kernel with the config gathered from "zcat /proc/config.gz > .config" because I lost the original one. So these two 2.6.11 kernels should be identical, but the newly compiled one didn't make my USB-mouse work the way the old one did. Strange stuff, isn't it?

So, thanks to the nice guys on bcol the problem is solved now. In my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, I had three sections "InputDevice": one for my keyboard and two for my mice (USB and touchpad/clit). One was using /dev/input/mouse0, the other one /dev/input/mouse1. Toni (Dutch weblog) explained me that I could better use /dev/input/mice as this is some virtual device combining the input from all mouse-devices. I even shouldn't merge the two sections and there options, just change the device. And yes, this works! And with the new kernel, I also have sound working! There must be some file corrupt in the old kernel image. Thanks, Toni!

Next thing on the list is following the Gentoo Power Management Guide, when I have some time.

Dates of Sessions

1927-1929

Major Political Events

Officers

Senate

• President pro tempore - George H. Moses

House of Representatives

• Speaker of the House - Nicholas Longworth

Members of the Seventieth United States Congress

Senate

Map showing party membership at the start of the 70th Senate. Red states are represented by two Republicans and blue by two Democrats. Purple states are represented by one senator from each party. Minnesota was represented by a Republican and a Farmer-Laborite.

• Henry Fountain Ashurst (D-AZ)
• Alben William Barkley (D-KY)
• Thomas Francis Bayard (D-DE)
• Hiram Francis Bingham (R-CT)
• Hugo Lafayette Black (D-AL)
• John James Blaine (R-WI)
• Coleman Livingston Blease (D-SC)
• William Edgar Borah (R-ID)
• Sam Gilbert Bratton (D-NM)
• Smith Wildman Brookhart (R-IA)
• Edwin Sidney Broussard (D-LA)
• William Cabell Bruce (D-MD)
• Theodore Elijah Burton (R-OH)
• Arthur Elijah Capper (R-KS)
• Thaddeus Horatius Caraway (D-AR)
• Royal Samuel Copeland (D-NY)
• James Samuel Couzens (R-MI)
• Charles Samuel Curtis (R-KS)
• Bronson Murray Cutting (R-NM)
• Porter Hinman Dale (R-VT)
• Charles Samuel Deneen (R-IL)
• Clarence Cleveland Dill (D-WA)
• Thomas Coleman Du Pont (R-DE)
• Walter Evans Edge (R-NJ)
• Edward Irving Edwards (D-NJ)
• Woodbridge Nathan Ferris (D-MI)
• Simeon Davison Fess (R-OH)
• Duncan Upshaw Fletcher (D-FL)
• Lynn Joseph Frazier (R-ND)
• Walter Franklin George (D-GA)
• Peter Goelet Gerry (D-RI)
• Frederick Huntington Gillett (R-MA)
• Carter Huntington Glass (D-VA)
• Otis Ferguson Glenn (R-IL)
• Guy Despard Goff (R-WV)
• Frank Robert Gooding (R-ID)
• Arthur Robinson Gould (R-ME)
• Frank Lester Greene (R-VT)
• Frederick Lester Hale (R-ME)
• William Julius Harris (D-GA)
• Byron Patton Harrison (D-MS)
• Daniel Oren Hastings (R-DE)
• Harry Bartow Hawes (D-MO)
• Carl Trumbull Hayden (D-AZ)
• James Thomas Heflin (D-AL)
• Robert Beecher Howell (R-NE)
• Hiram Warren Johnson (R-CA)
• Andrieus Aristieus Jones (D-NM)
• Wesley Livsey Jones (R-WA)
• John Benjamin Kendrick (D-WY)
• Henry Wilder Keyes (R-NH)
• William Henry King (D-UT)
• Robert Marion La Follette (R-WI)
• Octaviano Ambrosio Larrazolo (R-NM)
• Cyrus Ambrosio Locher (D-OH)
• Earle Bradford Mayfield (D-TX)
• Kenneth Douglas Mckellar (D-TN)
• George Payne Mclean (R-CT)
• William Henry Mcmaster (R-SD)
• Charles Linza Mcnary (R-OR)
• Jesse Houghton Metcalf (R-RI)
• George Higgins Moses (R-NH)
• Matthew Mansfield Neely (D-WV)
• Peter Mansfield Norbeck (R-SD)
• George William Norris (R-NE)
• Gerald Prentice Nye (R-ND)
• Tasker Lowndes Oddie (R-NV)
• Lee Slater Overman (D-NC)
• Lawrence Cowle Phipps (R-CO)
• William Bliss Pine (R-OK)
• Key Bliss Pittman (D-NV)
• Joseph Eugene Ransdell (D-LA)
• David Aiken Reed (R-PA)
• James Alexander Reed (D-MO)
• Arthur Raymond Robinson (R-IN)
• Joseph Taylor Robinson (D-AR)
• Frederic Mosley Sackett (R-KY)
• Thomas David Schall (R-MN)
• Morris David Sheppard (D-TX)
• Henrik David Shipstead (Farmer-Labor-MN)
• Samuel Morgan Shortridge (R-CA)
• Furnifold Mclendel Simmons (D-NC)
• Ellison Durant Smith (D-SC)
• Frank Leslie Smith (R-IL)
• Reed Leslie Smoot (R-UT)
• Daniel Frederic Steck (D-IA)
• Frederick Frederic Steiwer (R-OR)
• Hubert Durrett Stephens (D-MS)
• Claude Augustus Swanson (D-VA)
• Elmer Augustus Thomas (D-OK)
• John Augustus Thomas (R-ID)
• John William Thomas (D-OK)
• Park William Trammell (D-FL)
• Millard Evelyn Tydings (D-MD)
• Lawrence Davis Tyson (D-TN)
• Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg (R-MI)
• William Scott Vare (R-PA)
• Robert Ferdinand Wagner (D-NY)
• David Ignatius Walsh (D-MA)
• Thomas James Walsh (D-MT)
• Francis Emroy Warren (R-WY)
• Charles Winfield Waterman (R-CO)
• James Eli Watson (R-IN)
• Burton Kendall Wheeler (D-MT)
• Frank Bartlett Willis (R-OH)

Representatives

• Charles Laban Abernethy (D-NC)
• Ernest Robinson Ackerman (R-NJ)
• Charles Robinson Adkins (R-IL)
• Richard Steere Aldrich (R-RI)
• John Clayton Allen (R-IL)
• Miles Clayton Allgood (D-AL)
• Edward Berton Almon (D-AL)
• August Herman Andresen (R-MN)
• Abram Piatt Andrew (R-MA)
• Daniel Read Anthony (R-KS)
• Samuel Shaw Arentz (R-NV)
• William Wright Arnold (D-IL)
• James Benjamin Aswell (D-LA)
• Oscar Louis Auf Der Heide (D-NJ)
• William Augustus Ayres (D-KS)
• Isaac Augustus Bacharach (R-NJ)
• Carl George Bachmann (R-WV)
• Robert Low Bacon (R-NY)
• William Brockman Bankhead (D-AL)
• Henry Ellsworth Barbour (R-CA)
• James Montgomery Beck (R-PA)
• Joseph David Beck (R-WI)
• Carroll Lynwood Beedy (R-ME)
• Edward Mcmath Beers (R-PA)
• James Thomas Begg (R-OH)
• Thomas Montgomery Bell (D-GA)
• Victor Luitpold Berger (Socialist-WI)
• Eugene Luitpold Black (D-TX)
• Loring Milton Black (D-NY)
• Schuyler Otis Bland (D-VA)
• Thomas Lindsay Blanton (D-TX)
• Sol Lindsay Bloom (D-NY)
• Frank Probasco Bohn (R-MI)
• William Dayton Boies (R-IA)
• Henry Leland Bowles (R-MA)
• Frank Llewellyn Bowman (R-WV)
• John Calvin Box (D-TX)
• John Joseph Boylan (D-NY)
• Charles Joseph Brand (R-OH)
• Charles Hillyer Brand (D-GA)
• Clay Stone Briggs (D-TX)
• Elbert Sidney Brigham (R-VT)
• Frederick Albert Britten (R-IL)
• Edward Everts Browne (R-WI)
• Gordon Weaver Browning (D-TN)
• James Paul Buchanan (D-TX)
• John Theodore Buckbee (R-IL)
• Alfred Lee Bulwinkle (D-NC)
• Clark Lee Burdick (R-RI)
• Olger Burton Burtness (R-ND)
• Thomas Jefferson Busby (D-MS)
• Robert Grey Bushong (R-PA)
• Robert Reyburn Butler (R-OR)
• Thomas Stalker Butler (R-PA)
• Joseph Wellington Byrns (D-TN)
• Guy Edgar Campbell (D-PA)
• Harry Clifford Canfield (D-IN)
• Clarence Andrew Cannon (D-MO)
• John Francis Carew (D-NY)
• Patrick J. Carley (D-NY)
• William Leighton Carss Farmer LaboriteMN)
• Albert Edward Carter (R-CA)
• Wilburn Edward Cartwright (D-OK)
• John Joseph Casey (D-PA)
• Emanuel Joseph Celler (D-NY)
• William Wallace Chalmers (R-OH)
• Virgil Munday Chapman (D-KY)
• James Mitchell Chase (R-PA)
• Carl Richard Chindblom (R-IL)
• Charles Andrew Christopherson (R-SD)
• Frank Andrew Clague (R-MN)
• Robert Henry Clancy (R-MI)
• John Davenport Clarke (R-NY)
• John Joseph Cochran (D-MO)
• Thomas Cunningham Cochran (R-PA)
• William Wolfe Cohen (D-NY)
• Cyrenus Wolfe Cole (R-IA)
• William Purington Cole (D-MD)
• James William Collier (D-MS)
• Ross Alexander Collins (D-MS)
• Don Byron Colton (R-UT)
• George Hamilton Combs (D-MO)
• Thomas Terry Connally (D-TX)
• William Patrick Connery (D-MA)
• James Joseph Connolly (R-PA)
• Henry Allen Cooper (R-WI)
• John Gordon Cooper (R-OH)
• Parker Gordon Corning (D-NY)
• Edward Eugene Cox (D-GA)
• Joe Eugene Crail (R-CA)
• Louis Convers Cramton (R-MI)
• Charles Robert Crisp (D-GA)
• Robert Crosser (D-OH)
• Frank Robert Crowther (R-NY)
• Maurice Edgar Crumpacker (R-OR)
• Francis Dugan Culkin (R-NY)
• Thomas Henry Cullen (D-NY)
• Charles Forrest Curry (R-CA)
• Frederick William Dallinger (R-MA)
• George Potter Darrow (R-PA)
• Frederick Morgan Davenport (R-NY)
• Martin Luther Davey (D-OH)
• Ewin Lamar Davis (D-TN)
• René Louis De Rouen (D-LA)
• Joseph Thomas Deal (D-VA)
• Stephen Wallace Dempsey (R-NY)
• Edward Everett Denison (R-IL)
• Clement Cabell Dickinson (D-MO)
• Lester Jesse Dickinson (R-IA)
• Samuel Jesse Dickstein (D-NY)
• Frederick Haskell Dominick (D-SC)
• Robert Lee Doughton (D-NC)
• Lewis Williams Douglas (D-AZ)
• John Joseph Douglass (D-MA)
• Isaac Hoffer Doutrich (R-PA)
• Cassius Clay Dowell (R-IA)
• Thomas Aloysius Doyle (D-IL)
• Herbert Jackson Drane (D-FL)
• Patrick Henry Drewry (D-VA)
• William Joshua Driver (D-AR)
• Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer (R-MO)
• Charles Aubrey Eaton (R-NJ)
• Charles Gordon Edwards (D-GA)
• Richard Nash Elliott (R-IN)
• Edward Theodore England (R-WV)
• Harry Lane Englebright (R-CA)
• Edward Everett Eslick (D-TN)
• Harry Allison Estep (R-PA)
• John Morgan Evans (D-MT)
• William Elmer Evans (R-CA)
• Charles Lee Faust (R-MO)
• Edward Hart Fenn (R-CT)
• Hamilton Hart Fish (R-NY)
• Hubert Frederick Fisher (D-TN)
• Roy Gerald Fitzgerald (R-OH)
• William Thomas Fitzgerald (R-OH)
• James Martin Fitzpatrick (D-NY)
• Thomas Brooks Fletcher (D-OH)
• Franklin William Fort (R-NJ)
• Frank Herbert Foss (R-MA)
• James Archibald Frear (R-WI)
• Arthur Monroe Free (R-CA)
• Richard Patrick Freeman (R-CT)
• Burton Lee French (R-ID)
• Louis Adams Frothingham (R-MA)
• James Franklin Fulbright (D-MO)
• Hampton Pitts Fulmer (D-SC)
• Allen John Furlow (R-MN)
• James Ambrose Gallivan (D-MA)
• Stephen Warfield Gambrill (D-MD)
• Milton Cline Garber (R-OK)
• Frank Cline Gardner (D-IN)
• John Nance Garner (D-TX)
• Daniel Edward Garrett (D-TX)
• Finis James Garrett (D-TN)
• Allard Henry Gasque (D-SC)
• Ernest Willard Gibson (R-VT)
• Charles Laceille Gifford (R-MA)
• Ralph Waldo Gilbert (D-KY)
• James Peter Glynn (R-CT)
• Benjamin Martin Golder (R-PA)
• Thomas Alan Goldsborough (D-MD)
• Godfrey Gummer Goodwin (R-MN)
• George Scott Graham (R-PA)
• Robert Alexis Green (D-FL)
• William Raymond Green (R-IA)
• Arthur Herbert Greenwood (D-IN)
• William Voris Gregory (D-KY)
• William Walton Griest (R-PA)
• Anthony Jerome Griffin (D-NY)
• Ulysses Samuel Guyer (R-KS)
• Lindley Hoag Hadley (R-WA)
• Fletcher Hoag Hale (R-NH)
• Albert Richardson Hall (R-IN)
• Homer William Hall (R-IL)
• Thomas William Hall (R-ND)
• William Cicero Hammer (D-NC)
• Clarence Eugene Hancock (R-NY)
• Guy Urban Hardy (R-CO)
• Butler Black Hare (D-SC)
• Thomas Walter Harrison (D-VA)
• William Wirt Hastings (D-OK)
• Gilbert Nelson Haugen (R-IA)
• Willis Chatman Hawley (R-OR)
• James Miller Hazlett (R-PA)
• Ira Greenlief Hersey (R-ME)
• Andrew James Hickey (R-IN)
• Joseph Lister Hill (D-AL)
• Samuel Billingsley Hill (D-WA)
• Homer Billingsley Hoch (R-KS)
• Harold Giles Hoffman (R-NJ)
• David Giles Hogg (R-IN)
• William Perry Holaday (R-IL)
• Joseph Lawrence Hooper (R-MI)
• Clifford Ragsdale Hope (R-KS)
• David William Hopkins (R-MO)
• Robert Griffith Houston (R-DE)
• Edgar Griffith Howard (D-NE)
• Everette Burgess Howard (D-OK)
• George Burgess Huddleston (D-AL)
• Grant Martin Hudson (R-MI)
• Claude Benton Hudspeth (D-TX)
• James Anthony Hughes (R-WV)
• Cordell Anthony Hull (D-TN)
• Morton Denison Hull (R-IL)
• William Edgar Hull (R-IL)
• James Thomas Igoe (D-IL)
• Edward Michael Irwin (R-IL)
• Meyer Michael Jacobstein (D-NY)
• William Francis James (R-MI)
• Lamar Francis Jeffers (D-AL)
• Thomas Albert Jenkins (R-OH)
• Albert Johnson (R-WA)
• Jed Joseph Johnson (D-OK)
• Luther Alexander Johnson (D-TX)
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