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From: Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg 1.20.x not working
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2019 16:57:41
Message-Id: 20190210195727.13525fa29c4341bd191fbec5@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg 1.20.x not working by Dale
1 On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 10:21:21 -0600 Dale wrote:
2 > Andrew Savchenko wrote:
3 > > On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 15:18:37 +0800 Bill Kenworthy wrote:
4 > >> Hi,
5 > >>
6 > >> I have a problem with any of the xorg-server 1.20.x series where I can
7 > >> start simple apps like xterm but more complexapps like firefox and
8 > >> thunderbird (for example) hang X with no erros in dmessage, log,
9 > >> Xorg.0.log, .xsession-errors etc.  The mouse can move but no clicks are
10 > >> accepted.  I have also recently run emerge -ep  with the profile upgrade
11 > >> (using 1.19 as I needed to use the system at the time) and a previous
12 > >> rebuild of almost everything with 1.20 installed with no change.
13 > > You need to rebuild all x11-drivers after xorg update. Input
14 > > problems you are describing are likely caused by modules built for
15 > > older xorg version.
16 > >
17 > > Try:
18 > > # emerge -av $(eix -IC x11-drivers --only-names)
19 > >
20 > > Best regards,
21 > > Andrew Savchenko
22 >
23 > Isn't one of these supposed to do that?
24 >
25 > emerge @module-rebuild
26 >
27 > emerge @x11-module-rebuild
28 >
29 > I think the top one is the correct one. 
30
31 The top one will rebuild kernel modules. So it has nothing to do
32 with xorg. The bottom one is correct, I just forgot about it.
33
34 Best regards,
35 Andrew Savchenko

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