Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] no keyboard no mouse
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:07:46
Message-Id: 4E047D16.2000807@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] no keyboard no mouse by Alan Mackenzie
1 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
2 > Hi, Adam.
3 >
4 > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 06:59:42PM +1000, Adam Carter wrote:
5 >
6 >> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 6:47 PM,<alain.didierjean@××××.fr> wrote:
7 >>
8 >>> After upgrading xcb, ati driver and rebooting xorg can't read mouse and keyboard
9 >>> anymore. No more access to the system besides booting an unbuntu livecd.
10 >>> According to /var/log/Xorg.0.log, evdev cant't be loaded any more (see below).
11 >>> What can I do ? Is there an upgrade to evdev ?
12 >>>
13 >
14 >> No you just need to rebuild it, so emerge xf86-input-evdev
15 >>
16 > This problem hit me too. Can you give us an explanation for needing to
17 > rebuild evdev? Was there some missing dependency in an ebuild, or
18 > something?
19 >
20 >
21
22 It is sort of like when you update a kernel and have to rebuild the
23 video drivers. One is built against the other and when you upgrade, you
24 have to update the things it was built against. There are other
25 examples of this but this is just the first one I thought of.
26
27 Anyone recall expat? That I think is another.
28
29 Dale
30
31 :-) :-)