Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Where to start with this kind of X problem
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 08:09:32
Message-Id: 200907261008.03130.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Where to start with this kind of X problem by Harry Putnam
1 On Saturday 25 July 2009 21:31:22 Harry Putnam wrote:
2 > Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com> writes:
3 > > How can I have all these module problems but have no trouble booting
4 > > as my regular user?
5 > >
6 > > It must be something else causing the error? I'm not understanding
7 > > why one user can startx but not another on the same hardware and same
8 > > .initrc file.
9 >
10 > Whooops ... I mislead any prespective readers.
11 > It turns out even my regular user cannot startx. Its been a while
12 > since I left X or rebooted so I just assumbed the regular user could
13 > still startx.
14 >
15 > NOT SO...
16 >
17 > I see several x11 related items were installed recently in updates.
18 > reader > qlop --list|grep ' Jul '|grep x11
19 > Sat Jul 4 08:22:29 2009 >>> x11-misc/util-macros-1.2.2
20 > Sat Jul 4 08:23:25 2009 >>> x11-proto/inputproto-1.5.1
21 > Sat Jul 4 08:23:37 2009 >>> x11-proto/dri2proto-2.1
22 > Sat Jul 4 08:24:04 2009 >>> x11-apps/xfs-1.1.0-r1
23 > Sat Jul 4 08:24:25 2009 >>> x11-libs/libXinerama-1.0.3
24 > Sat Jul 4 08:29:53 2009 >>> x11-misc/xkeyboard-config-1.6
25 > Sat Jul 4 08:41:05 2009 >>> x11-proto/glproto-1.4.10
26 > Sat Jul 4 08:50:49 2009 >>> x11-libs/cairo-1.8.8
27 > Sat Jul 4 08:54:21 2009 >>> x11-libs/pango-1.24.3
28 > Sat Jul 4 09:40:38 2009 >>> x11-base/xorg-server-1.6.1.902
29 > Sat Jul 4 09:42:44 2009 >>> x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.2.2
30 > Tue Jul 14 08:22:54 2009 >>> x11-libs/pango-1.24.4
31 > Tue Jul 14 11:19:40 2009 >>> x11-base/xorg-server-1.6.2-r1
32 >
33 > Some of them matching the things I got errors about..
34 > kbd input and 2 versions of the full server itself.
35
36 I don't see that you rebuilt the kdb, nv and mouse X drivers
37
38 --
39 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com