Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo decapitated

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:

> Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>
>> About a week ago, my Gentoo box was in a bad state where there were some
>> packages that would not install, so I was carefully emerging what I could
>> and filed a bug about one in particular that I could not emerge.
>>
>> Then I got a new kernel, 2.6.32-gentoo-r7, and I booted from it.  Eeeek.
>> No X11 at all.
>> The logs informed me about some things to do, and I did them, re-emerging
>> a number of things.  I paid particular attention to emerging anything with
>> x11 or xorg in its name.
>> Long wait.
>> I got to a point somewhere in there where X11 started, but would recognize
>> neither keyboard nor mouse.
>> I kept going.  The keyboard started to work.  I could actually log in, but
>> that's not all that useful without a mouse.
>> Then I started getting complaints about USE flags needed to make some
>> particular packages support some other packages.  I did those too.
>> Now I'm at the state where "emerge -aDNvu" denies there's any work to do,
>> and revdep-rebuild reports health.
>> Still no mouse.
>> Fortunately, I have a laptop that can ssh into the box and I can work with
>> it, but it's still essentially headless.
>> Anybody run into this state recently?
>> If there's a quick fix, I'd rather not make another bug.
>> --
>> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
>>
>>
> Have you tried this:
>
> emerge -1a $(qlist -I -C x11-drivers/)
>
> I have upgraded my kernel before without rebuilding these but they are
> small and only take a few minutes.  Your mileage may vary.
>
> The mouse drivers should be in that list.  If not, then something is
> missing in your set up.
>
> Dale
>
>
As I think I explained, I have re-emerged *everything* installed that had
"x11" or "xorg" in its name.  And the mouse driver was definitely there.
-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD