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On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Bob Sanders <rsanders@×××.com> wrote: |
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> Jim Seymour, mused, then expounded: |
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>> that is completely up to date package wise. The hardware does not seem to be the issue as a gentoo live dvd works perfectly. Any ideas on how I can get this working again? The only worthwhile errors I can find is in the xdm.log are below. This is with a clean xdm.log, reboot, login attempt and then killing X with ctrl_alt_bkspc. |
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> Sometimes it takes just rebuilding the device drivers, which can be |
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> found by the gine in the xorg-server ebuild - |
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> emerge portage-utils; qlist -I -C x11-drivers/ |
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> Take that output and emerge the drivers. |
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> Bob |
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I second this suggestion. |
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There was an update to xorg a few months ago that required a rebuild |
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of the drivers, but did not force it. What happened when I did that |
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upgrade was that I would get the graphical login screen, but the mouse |
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and keyboard did not work. Rebuilding the drivers fixed it for me. |
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Andrew |
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