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On 06/26/2011 09:25 PM, Philip Webb wrote: |
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> 110626 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>> On 06/26/2011 06:54 PM, Philip Webb wrote: |
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>>> Yesterday, I upgraded 'xorg-drivers' to the latest stable 1.10 |
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>>> & then found upon rebooting that X failed to recognise the keyboard. |
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>>> Yes, it's happened before& I was not surprised: |
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>>> I had to switch the machine off, reboot, login as root |
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>>> -- experience long ago made me avoid booting directly into a GUI -- |
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>>> & recompile 'xf86-input-evdev', after which everything returned to normal. |
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>>> Yes, there's a warning after the new 'xorg-drivers' has been installed, |
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>>> but I wasn't sure exactly which pkg(s) needed remerging, so took the chance. |
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>> it gives you an actual command that will emerge all x11-drivers/*. |
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> Yes, but it's not precise enough : |
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> root:534 xorg-server> qlist -I -C x11-drivers/ |
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> x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers |
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> x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev |
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> x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv |
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> x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa |
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> The only one I needed to remerge is the 2nd in the list. |
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But you don't know that for sure, and neither can portage (driver ABI |
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changes are not something portage can track.) The only sure thing is to |
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emerge them all. |