Re: [gentoo-user] Re: evdev broken?

[Francisco Ares]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 3:05 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday 20 Jul 2011 04:38:37 Francisco Ares wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 12:10 AM, Francisco Ares <frares@×××××.com>
> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 12:05 AM, Grant Edwards
> > > <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com
> > >
> > > > wrote:
> > >> On 2011-07-20, Francisco Ares <frares@×××××.com> wrote:
> > >> > Hi, All
> > >> >
> > >> > Recently, after blindingly emerging world, X11/Xorg stopped to
> accept
> > >>
> > >> mouse
> > >>
> > >> > and keyboard events. After some ways to figure out what was going
> on,
> > >> > I found that it seems related to "evdev".
> > >> >
> > >> > Anybody noticed something like that? The xorg-server package (or
> > >> > xorg-drivers, can't remember nor check now, because I had to use
> > >> > Windows
> > >> >
> > >> >:-(  ) is being built with "evdev" flag, but there is an error in the
> > >> >:log
> > >> >:
> > >> > file about evdev could not be found, as long as "dri" and "dri2". I
> am
> > >>
> > >> using
> > >>
> > >> > nvidia proprietary video driver.
> > >>
> > >> You probably just need to re-emerge the xf86-input packages that you
> > >> have installed. That happens after every update to the Xorg server,
> > >> and there are probably messages in the portage log to that effect.
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> Grant
> > >
> > > Thank you, gonna try it
> > >
> > > --
> > > Francisco
> >
> > It worked. Thanks a lot!! Back to Gentoo / X11 again ;-)
>
> Every time after you emerge xorg you're meant to remerge its drivers (evdev
> being one of them).  Usually there is some elog message telling you to run
> qfile to find what is need to be reinstalled:
>
>  qlist -I -C x11-drivers/
>
> --
> Regards,
> Mick
>


qlist works, too, thanks, that will be very useful in the future.

Best regards
Francisco