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From: Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Where to start with this kind of X problem
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:31:48
Message-Id: 87k51w8sqd.fsf@newsguy.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Where to start with this kind of X problem by Harry Putnam
1 Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com> writes:
2
3 > How can I have all these module problems but have no trouble booting
4 > as my regular user?
5 >
6 > It must be something else causing the error? I'm not understanding
7 > why one user can startx but not another on the same hardware and same
8 > .initrc file.
9
10 Whooops ... I mislead any prespective readers.
11 It turns out even my regular user cannot startx. Its been a while
12 since I left X or rebooted so I just assumbed the regular user could
13 still startx.
14
15 NOT SO...
16
17 I see several x11 related items were installed recently in updates.
18 reader > qlop --list|grep ' Jul '|grep x11
19 Sat Jul 4 08:22:29 2009 >>> x11-misc/util-macros-1.2.2
20 Sat Jul 4 08:23:25 2009 >>> x11-proto/inputproto-1.5.1
21 Sat Jul 4 08:23:37 2009 >>> x11-proto/dri2proto-2.1
22 Sat Jul 4 08:24:04 2009 >>> x11-apps/xfs-1.1.0-r1
23 Sat Jul 4 08:24:25 2009 >>> x11-libs/libXinerama-1.0.3
24 Sat Jul 4 08:29:53 2009 >>> x11-misc/xkeyboard-config-1.6
25 Sat Jul 4 08:41:05 2009 >>> x11-proto/glproto-1.4.10
26 Sat Jul 4 08:50:49 2009 >>> x11-libs/cairo-1.8.8
27 Sat Jul 4 08:54:21 2009 >>> x11-libs/pango-1.24.3
28 Sat Jul 4 09:40:38 2009 >>> x11-base/xorg-server-1.6.1.902
29 Sat Jul 4 09:42:44 2009 >>> x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.2.2
30 Tue Jul 14 08:22:54 2009 >>> x11-libs/pango-1.24.4
31 Tue Jul 14 11:19:40 2009 >>> x11-base/xorg-server-1.6.2-r1
32
33 Some of them matching the things I got errors about..
34 kbd input and 2 versions of the full server itself.
35
36 Has anyone else noticed problems with X in recent updates?
37
38 I'm backing up xorg-server to pre 1.6.1.902 to see it that does any
39 good but have a hunch it will involve more reinstalls than that.

Replies

Subject Author
[gentoo-user] Re: Where to start with this kind of X problem Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Where to start with this kind of X problem Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>