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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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