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have you tried emergeing x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev and |
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x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse on their own without xorg? |
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Cheers |
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Kad |
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On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> About a week ago, my Gentoo box was in a bad state where there were some |
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> packages that would not install, so I was carefully emerging what I could |
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> and filed a bug about one in particular that I could not emerge. |
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> Then I got a new kernel, 2.6.32-gentoo-r7, and I booted from it. Eeeek. No |
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> X11 at all. |
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> The logs informed me about some things to do, and I did them, re-emerging a |
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> number of things. I paid particular attention to emerging anything with x11 |
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> or xorg in its name. |
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> Long wait. |
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> I got to a point somewhere in there where X11 started, but would recognize |
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> neither keyboard nor mouse. |
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> I kept going. The keyboard started to work. I could actually log in, but |
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> that's not all that useful without a mouse. |
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> Then I started getting complaints about USE flags needed to make some |
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> particular packages support some other packages. I did those too. |
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> Now I'm at the state where "emerge -aDNvu" denies there's any work to do, |
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> and revdep-rebuild reports health. |
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> Still no mouse. |
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> Fortunately, I have a laptop that can ssh into the box and I can work with |
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> it, but it's still essentially headless. |
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> Anybody run into this state recently? |
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> If there's a quick fix, I'd rather not make another bug. |
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> -- |
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> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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