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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: a virtual advantage ?
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 16:09:15
Message-Id: iu7lhh$24n$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] a virtual advantage ? by Philip Webb
1 On 06/26/2011 06:54 PM, Philip Webb wrote:
2 > Yesterday, I upgraded 'xorg-drivers' to the latest stable 1.10
3 > & then found upon rebooting that X failed to recognise the keyboard.
4 > Yes, it's happened before& I was not surprised:
5 > I had to switch the machine off, reboot, login as root
6 > -- experience long ago made me avoid booting directly into a GUI --
7 > & recompile 'xf86-input-evdev', after which everything returned to normal.
8 > Yes, there's a warning after the new 'xorg-drivers' has been installed,
9 > but I wasn't sure exactly which pkg(s) needed remerging, so took the chance.
10
11 Hmm? AFAIK, it gives you an actual command that will emerge all
12 x11-drivers/*. So can you not be sure which pkgs need remerging?

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