Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] no keyboard no mouse
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 06:55:37
Message-Id: 1839365.SSgm6rQ5NO@nazgul
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] no keyboard no mouse by Pandu Poluan
1 On Saturday 25 June 2011 11:31:50 Pandu Poluan did opine thusly:
2 > On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 05:00, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
3 wrote:
4 > > On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:43:02 +0200 (CEST), Alain DIDIERJEAN wrote:
5 > >> I solved the problem by rebuilding xf86-input-evdev after
6 > >> booting on an unbuntu livecd then chrooting... Took some
7 > >> time. As for using portage
8 > >
9 > > Why did you need to chroot, just boot your normal system without
10 > > X (add gentoo=nox to the kernel paramaters).
11 > >
12 > >> 2.2, it's listed as ~*2.2.0_alpha41, too early for me. Thanks
13 > >> all for the help
14 > >
15 > > Don't let the ridiculous version number fool you, 2.2 has been
16 > > generally usable for a couple of years.
17 >
18 > Honestly, the "alpha" designation also made me shy away from 2.2
19
20 It's not alpha as in alpha
21
22 The rc point releases hit -99 sometime ago so Zac switched to a
23 different prefix. Most other projects would have been a release by
24 now.
25
26
27 >
28 > Really, someone should rebrand that as "beta", if 2.2 is indeed
29 > usable for a couple of years.
30 >
31 > That said, thanks for the heads-up. I'll unmask it on my systems :-)
32 >
33 > Rgdsm
34 --
35 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com