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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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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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