Re: [gentoo-user] no mouse nor keyboard on X

[Francisco Ares]

On 5/8/10, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 08 May 2010 14:48:13 Francisco Ares wrote:
>> Hi, guys,
>>
>> After quite a long update list of packages (100+) and a reboot, I could
>> not
>> work in any window or desktop manager I have installed.
>>
>> I rebooted (the ACPI power switch worked fine) and managed to get
>> interactive action during the init scripts and did not allowed "xdm" to
>> start.
>>
>> Then I was able to use normaly the keyboard and mouse ("gpm"). Forced
>> reinstall of xorg-server, xorg-drivers, xorg-cf-files, xdm, kdm (also, in
>> my case, nvidia-drivers) and tryed to use Window Maker - no mouse
>> movements, although the pointer was there, and no visible keyboard effect.
>>
>> Any hints on how to get things back?
>
> What version of xorg-server?
> It gives an elog, did you read it?
> What input driver?
> If you upgraded to xorg-server-1.8, did you disable hal and enable udev?
> Are you using the evdev driver?
>
>
> --
> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
>

Yep, using evdev, and that seems to be the issue: there are log file
lines complaining about different versions:

(II) Module evdev: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
        compiled for 1.6.5, module version = 2.3.2
        Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
        ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 4.0
(EE) module ABI major version (4) doesn't match server's version (7)

installed:
- xorg-drivers-1.7
- xorg-server-1.7.6
- xorg-x11-7.4-r1
- xorg-cf-files-1.0.3

I have just re-emerged them all, with no results.

Thanks
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