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On Wednesday 20 Jul 2011 04:38:37 Francisco Ares wrote: |
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> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 12:10 AM, Francisco Ares <frares@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 12:05 AM, Grant Edwards |
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> > <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com |
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> > |
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> > > wrote: |
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> >> On 2011-07-20, Francisco Ares <frares@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> > Hi, All |
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> >> > |
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> >> > Recently, after blindingly emerging world, X11/Xorg stopped to accept |
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> >> |
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> >> mouse |
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> >> |
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> >> > and keyboard events. After some ways to figure out what was going on, |
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> >> > I found that it seems related to "evdev". |
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> >> > |
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> >> > Anybody noticed something like that? The xorg-server package (or |
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> >> > xorg-drivers, can't remember nor check now, because I had to use |
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> >> > Windows |
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> >> > |
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> >> >:-( ) is being built with "evdev" flag, but there is an error in the |
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> >> >:log |
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> >> >: |
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> >> > file about evdev could not be found, as long as "dri" and "dri2". I am |
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> >> |
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> >> using |
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> >> |
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> >> > nvidia proprietary video driver. |
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> >> |
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> >> You probably just need to re-emerge the xf86-input packages that you |
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> >> have installed. That happens after every update to the Xorg server, |
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> >> and there are probably messages in the portage log to that effect. |
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> >> |
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> >> -- |
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> >> Grant |
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> > |
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> > Thank you, gonna try it |
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> > |
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> > -- |
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> > Francisco |
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> |
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> It worked. Thanks a lot!! Back to Gentoo / X11 again ;-) |
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Every time after you emerge xorg you're meant to remerge its drivers (evdev |
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being one of them). Usually there is some elog message telling you to run |
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qfile to find what is need to be reinstalled: |
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qlist -I -C x11-drivers/ |
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-- |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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