Re: [gentoo-user] xorg 1.20.x not working

[John Covici]

On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 11:57:27 -0500,
Andrew Savchenko wrote:
>
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> On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 10:21:21 -0600 Dale wrote:
> > Andrew Savchenko wrote:
> > > On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 15:18:37 +0800 Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> I have a problem with any of the xorg-server 1.20.x series where I can
> > >> start simple apps like xterm but more complexapps like firefox and
> > >> thunderbird (for example) hang X with no erros in dmessage, log,
> > >> Xorg.0.log, .xsession-errors etc.  The mouse can move but no clicks are
> > >> accepted.  I have also recently run emerge -ep  with the profile upgrade
> > >> (using 1.19 as I needed to use the system at the time) and a previous
> > >> rebuild of almost everything with 1.20 installed with no change.
> > > You need to rebuild all x11-drivers after xorg update. Input
> > > problems you are describing are likely caused by modules built for
> > > older xorg version.
> > >
> > > Try:
> > >  # emerge -av $(eix -IC x11-drivers --only-names)
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Andrew Savchenko
> >
> > Isn't one of these supposed to do that?
> >
> > emerge @module-rebuild
> >
> > emerge @x11-module-rebuild
> >
> > I think the top one is the correct one. 
>
> The top one will rebuild kernel modules. So it has nothing to do
> with xorg. The bottom one is correct, I just forgot about it.

I have much worse problems, whenever I start gdm, the screen shows the
same content  as the virtual console where I started gdm.  Gdm is
running, x-server is running, but the screen is not showing it.  I did
compile all the drivers, so this is very strange.

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