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On Tuesday 01 Nov 2011 08:43:25 Mick wrote: |
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> Hi All, |
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> I am trying to troubleshoot e17 which on one laptop recently started |
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> shutting down the monitor backlight when the WM starts. I can't recover |
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> from it, Ctrl+Alt+F1 is also showing a black screen, stopping X does not |
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> fix it and the only solution is to shutdown again. Thankfully I use |
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> startx so I can always boot back into a console. <phew!> |
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> I want to find out which version this started happening from, but with |
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> portage 9999 ebuilds I am not sure how to specify which version I want all |
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> the e17 packages to download and install from svn. |
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> Is there a particular incantation? There's a number of packages and |
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> therefore I would rather not have to manually modify umpteen ebuilds a |
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> number of times to do this (which is what I recall I had to do with a |
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> wireless driver ebuild in the past). |
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> I tried: |
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> ESVN_OPTIONS="-r64511" emerge <blah-blah> but it did not work. |
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Ah! I seem to have the syntax wrong ... |
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Next thing to try: ESVN_REVISION="64511" emerge <blah-blah> |
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Regards, |
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Mick |