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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] No keyboard or mouse with X after upgrade
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 11:51:15
Message-Id: 201107231250.02942.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] No keyboard or mouse with X after upgrade by Jeff Cranmer
1 On Saturday 23 Jul 2011 03:53:44 Jeff Cranmer wrote:
2 > On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 22:39 -0400, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
3 > > On Sat, 2011-07-23 at 10:18 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
4 > > > On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 22:00 -0400, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
5 > > > > Hi All,
6 > > > >
7 > > > > I recently ran an emerge -NDuav on my system and world lists, and now
8 > > > > I can't start X and keep the keyboard or mouse operating.
9 > > > >
10 > > > > Is this a known issue? Any simple fixes?
11 > > > >
12 > > > > Thanks in advance
13 > > > >
14 > > > > Jeff
15 > > >
16 > > > Did you follow the rebuild instructions for keyboard/mouse etc in the
17 > > > ebuild messages? - yes its a known problem when you dont do that.
18 > > >
19 > > > BillK
20 > >
21 > > Thanks. It looks like I've missed that. Where were the ebuild
22 > > messages? I don't see anything on xorg-server-1.10.2
23 >
24 > Got it - xf86-input-evdev needed to be recompiled to recover keyboard
25 > and mouse operation.
26 >
27 > Thanks
28 >
29 > Jeff
30
31 Have a look here:
32
33 http://gmane.linux.gentoo.user/244589
34
35 --
36 Regards,
37 Mick

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