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Sebastian Pipping wrote: |
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> Hello Roger, |
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> On 06/01/10 02:55, Roger A. Simoneau wrote: |
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>> Greetings; |
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>> I've been in the process of upgrading (been a couple years). I ran into |
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>> a bit of an issue that took a bit to resolve. My suggestion comes based |
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>> on what I did to resolve the issue. |
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>> Please add a reference to the X Server Configuration Howto that the |
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>> individual may require emerging xf86-input-evdev prior to execution of |
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>> the X server. In my case, that package wasn't automatically emerged |
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>> when I emerged the Xorg server. |
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> from what you describe I have the impression that status quo may need |
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> fixing rather than documentation. |
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> How come xf86-input-evdev is needed but not a dependency? |
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> Is it a bug in the ebuild? Was your usage unusual in any way? |
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> Could you research that for us and come back with more details? |
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> Thanks, best, |
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> Sebastian |
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I just did a reinstall on my system and it appears to have pulled in the |
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drivers correctly. This is what equery shows: |
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smoker-new ~ # equery d xf86-input-mouse |
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* These packages depend on xf86-input-mouse: |
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x11-base/xorg-drivers-1.7 (input_devices_mouse ? |
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x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse) |
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smoker-new ~ # equery d xf86-input-evdev |
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* These packages depend on xf86-input-evdev: |
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x11-base/xorg-drivers-1.7 (input_devices_evdev ? |
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x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev) |
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smoker-new ~ # equery d xf86-input-keyboard |
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* These packages depend on xf86-input-keyboard: |
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x11-base/xorg-drivers-1.7 (input_devices_keyboard ? |
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x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard) |
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smoker-new ~ # |
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Also, when I emerged xorg, it pulled in evdev, keyboard and mouse |
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drivers as I have them set in make.conf. It even pulled in my nvidia |
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drivers since it is set in make.conf as well. |
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The biggest issue I ran into was a bad set of binaries that I copied |
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from the old system. Other than that, the install instructions seemed |
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to have been fine. I followed them since it has been a few years since |
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I did a install. I did find myself sort of lost for a bit tho. After |
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the reboot part, its like the install docs ran dry. I had to go search |
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the doc list to find the X and KDE part. I think it should have a link |
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to KDE, gnome and maybe a couple other options such as Fluxbox or |
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something. Sort of guide a person at least a little. This is a link to |
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the page I viewed: |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=12 |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |