<p>On Jun 26, 2011 6:56 PM, "Philip Webb" <<a href="mailto:purslow@...">purslow@...</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Yesterday, I upgraded 'xorg-drivers' to the latest stable 1.10<br>
> & then found upon rebooting that X failed to recognise the keyboard.<br>
> Yes, it's happened before & I was not surprised:<br>
> I had to switch the machine off, reboot, login as root<br>
> -- experience long ago made me avoid booting directly into a GUI --<br>
> & recompile 'xf86-input-evdev', after which everything returned to normal.<br>
> Yes, there's a warning after the new 'xorg-drivers' has been installed,<br>
> but I wasn't sure exactly which pkg(s) needed remerging, so took the chance.<br>
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> My point is that it looks -- to a naive user -- like a good opportunity<br>
> for another 'virtual', which wb satisfied by Evdev or equivalent.<br>
> This would avoid the problem when busy users miss the warning notice<br>
> (see a current users' thread).<br>
><br>
> Perhaps this would in turn need an extension of the 'virtual' concept,<br>
> to require rebuilding of the relevant pkg to satisfy the main emerge.<br>
> There is another thread today re 'revdep-rebuild' + Python + Perl,<br>
> which seems to cover a bit of the same ground.<br>
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> Thanks as always to the devs for their conscientious unpaid efforts.<br>
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<p>portage 2.2 has a nice set for that called @x11-module-rebuild :)</p>
<p>Alex | wired</p>
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