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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server 1.7.6 without mouse and keyboard (solved)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:54:19
Message-Id: i1i95r$brf$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server 1.7.6 without mouse and keyboard (solved) by Mark Knecht
1 On 07/13/2010 08:14 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
2 > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Tamer Higazi<th982a@××××××××××.com> wrote:
3 >> Hi Mark!
4 >> you were entirely right, the problem were the input drivers.
5 >>
6 >> There three packages I remerged:
7 >>
8 >> xf86-input-mouse
9 >> xf86-input-keyboard
10 >> xf86-input-evdev
11 >>
12 >> and the problem was gone.
13 >>
14 >>
15 >> Tamer
16 >
17 > Glad it worked. Investigate modules-rebuild as it keeps track of these
18 > things and does it for you pretty easily. Here's what's in my list:
19 >
20 > c2stable ~ # module-rebuild list
21 > ** Packages which I will emerge are:
22 > =x11-base/xorg-drivers-1.7
23 > =x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.3.2
24 > =x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.13.0
25 > =x11-drivers/xf86-video-fbdev-0.4.2
26 > =x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard-1.4.0
27 > =x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse-1.5.0
28 > =x11-drivers/xf86-video-vmware-11.0.1
29 > =media-libs/mesa-7.8.1
30
31 All of the above are not kernel modules. Kernel updates don't affect
32 them, only xorg-server updates do.
33
34
35 > =app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.26
36
37 Only this is affected by kernel updates.

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