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On Jun 26, 2011 6:56 PM, "Philip Webb" <purslow@××××××××.net> 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 |
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chance. |
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> My point is that it looks -- to a naive user -- like a good opportunity |
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> for another 'virtual', which wb satisfied by Evdev or equivalent. |
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> This would avoid the problem when busy users miss the warning notice |
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> (see a current users' thread). |
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> Perhaps this would in turn need an extension of the 'virtual' concept, |
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> to require rebuilding of the relevant pkg to satisfy the main emerge. |
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> There is another thread today re 'revdep-rebuild' + Python + Perl, |
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> which seems to cover a bit of the same ground. |
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> Thanks as always to the devs for their conscientious unpaid efforts. |
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> SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb |
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portage 2.2 has a nice set for that called @x11-module-rebuild :) |
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Alex | wired |