[gentoo-user] Re: X broken; keyboard for sure, maybe dri -- FIXED

On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 07:05:27PM -0700, felix@×××××××.com wrote:
> A reboot has lost X, in particular the keyboard confuses it.  Here is
> the beginning of the X log.  Unfortunately, I didn't save the previous
> working log.  This is ~amd64 under 2.6.30-gentoo-r1 and -r2.

I tried many things, eventually got desperate and unmerged every X
package, then remerged everything.  Basically made a list by

    cd /usr/portage
    ls x11*/* >/tmp/xwoes

edited that to remove the metadata etc, ran

    emerge -C `cat /tmp/xwoes` >/tmp/xwoes-log 2>&1

edited that to collect only the ones that had actually been unmerged,
and remerged all those.

I have no idea what was broken, but it is working again.  The only
truly annoying hiccup other than the time and hassle was having to
temporarily remerge emacs with no GUI support, then having to remerge
again after.  The same probably applies to vim, but I use nvi or one
of the other "true" vi clones, not the bloated pretender :-)  When I
want light and fast, I want light and fast, not emacs with modal crap.

I may have been wrong about the "dri" complaint being unimportant and
the "expected keysym, got XF86Battery: line 59 of inet" lines being
significant.  The "dri" complaint is gone but the keysym complaints
remain.  But I do not know with any certainty what either complaint
really meant, whether either one was really a problem, or whether
either one is now really fixed.

It's running xorg 1.6.2 if anybody cares :-)

What a pain.

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