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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] no keyboard no mouse
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 12:03:28
Message-Id: 8135889.K81uB0G1ml@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] no keyboard no mouse by Alan Mackenzie
1 On Friday 24 June 2011 11:43:48 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
2 > Hi, Adam.
3 >
4 > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 06:59:42PM +1000, Adam Carter wrote:
5 > > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 6:47 PM, <alain.didierjean@××××.fr> wrote:
6 > > > After upgrading xcb, ati driver and rebooting xorg can't read mouse
7 > > > and keyboard anymore. No more access to the system besides booting
8 > > > an unbuntu livecd. According to /var/log/Xorg.0.log, evdev cant't
9 > > > be loaded any more (see below). What can I do ? Is there an upgrade
10 > > > to evdev ?
11 > >
12 > > No you just need to rebuild it, so emerge xf86-input-evdev
13 >
14 > This problem hit me too. Can you give us an explanation for needing to
15 > rebuild evdev? Was there some missing dependency in an ebuild, or
16 > something?
17
18
19 from xorg-server ebuild:
20
21 elog "You should consider reading upgrade guide for this
22 release:"
23 elog " http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-
24 server-$(get_version_component_range 1-2)-upgrade-guide.xml"
25 echo
26 ewarn "You must rebuild all drivers if upgrading from <xorg-
27 server-$(get_version_component_range 1-2)"
28 ewarn "because the ABI changed. If you cannot start X because"
29 ewarn "of module version mismatch errors, this is your
30 problem."
31
32 echo
33 ewarn "You can generate a list of all installed packages in
34 the x11-drivers"
35 ewarn "category using this command:"
36 ewarn " emerge portage-utils; qlist -I -C x11-drivers/"
37 ewarn "or using sets from portage-2.2:"
38 ewarn " emerge @x11-module-rebuild"
39 fi
40
41
42 people. learn to read.
43
44 --
45 #163933

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Re: [gentoo-user] no keyboard no mouse Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de>