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On Sunday 20 February 2011 19:44:53 covici@××××××××××.com wrote: |
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> Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> > Mick writes: |
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> > > On Sunday 20 February 2011 14:20:56 covici@××××××××××.com wrote: |
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> > > |
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> > > Oh I see. You've upgraded xorg, but not your kernel ... ? |
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> > > If this is the case, then downgrade xorg-server back to 1.7 version. |
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> > |
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> > X.org 1.7 has been masked, and will be removed from the portage tree in |
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> > four weeks. Sure, you can keep the ebuilds in the local overlay, but I |
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> > fear this will lead to trouble eventually. |
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> > I will do this for a while, too, but one day I will have to deal with |
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> > it. This X stuff is really giving me great trouble. Or maybe I will just |
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> > give up and get another graphics card, my on-board Radeon HD3200 does |
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> > not seem to be supported well. But then, I am having trouble with X |
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> > since I am using Linux, there were only few, short periods of time when |
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> > X just worked. |
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> Well, I could not even downgrade to 1.7 -- when I did and started gdm, I |
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> lost my keyboard -- I had to login from somewhere else and do chvt to |
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> get out. Maybe this was because of hal or something, not sure. I have |
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> in my backups an ebuild for 1.9.2.902 which seems to work in preliminary |
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> testing whereas 1.9.4 did not work at all with this kernel. |
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> X stuff is sure quirky. |
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Yes, especially between versions! ;-) |
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To get your keyboard/mouse back with version 1.7 you may need to set up those |
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pesky .fdi files and of course you will need to make sure that hal is running. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |