Re: [gentoo-user] no mouse nor keyboard on X

[Alan McKinnon]

On Saturday 08 May 2010 16:01:18 Francisco Ares wrote:
> On 5/8/10, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
> > On Saturday 08 May 2010 14:48:13 Francisco Ares wrote:
> >> Hi, guys,
> >>
> >> After quite a long update list of packages (100+) and a reboot, I could
> >> not
> >> work in any window or desktop manager I have installed.
> >>
> >> I rebooted (the ACPI power switch worked fine) and managed to get
> >> interactive action during the init scripts and did not allowed "xdm" to
> >> start.
> >>
> >> Then I was able to use normaly the keyboard and mouse ("gpm"). Forced
> >> reinstall of xorg-server, xorg-drivers, xorg-cf-files, xdm, kdm (also,
> >> in my case, nvidia-drivers) and tryed to use Window Maker - no mouse
> >> movements, although the pointer was there, and no visible keyboard
> >> effect.
> >>
> >> Any hints on how to get things back?
> >
> > What version of xorg-server?
> > It gives an elog, did you read it?
> > What input driver?
> > If you upgraded to xorg-server-1.8, did you disable hal and enable udev?
> > Are you using the evdev driver?
> >
> >
> > --
> > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
>
> Yep, using evdev, and that seems to be the issue: there are log file
> lines complaining about different versions:
>
> (II) Module evdev: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
>         compiled for 1.6.5, module version = 2.3.2
>         Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
>         ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 4.0
> (EE) module ABI major version (4) doesn't match server's version (7)
>
> installed:
> - xorg-drivers-1.7
> - xorg-server-1.7.6
> - xorg-x11-7.4-r1
> - xorg-cf-files-1.0.3

Did you explicitly remerge the various drivers (video, evdev, etc).

xorg-drivers is just a meta package and won't remerge individual drivers 
unless the version number changes. It look to me like you have an evdev driver 
built against an earlier X server

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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com