From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nerzy-0006uK-Dx for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:27:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 36247E1023; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:27:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pz0-f199.google.com (mail-pz0-f199.google.com [209.85.222.199]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09533E1023 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:27:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk37 with SMTP id 37so5821808pzk.10 for ; Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:27:05 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=sv6LLS0PKOHx4hOHuaAm+Gf30ffDu0Q0CCKW/2teiew=; b=jrjvKLVlGFx0/vI0lldY8LScVjD7btBQe6CZ+kKQ7Pz/zffsG/3JZT21Wp+/5g8BXg C5YA9jSoudE0jRKLxGd9Sd7fmArCohpBtw1UWAod82mufiLZrckVoZOo2qamTgKt8+LJ ijmYWc8gsMRABY6r+V0C+lWtfile0TNXKCoU4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ARj/fpfdzaJTnegg1miiudvexkVeyj3omaA3byaLY+K5Sx/dpACLo/MAXBcwL6oJtg v6bgQfwJTIxpfNyu2sJp1WhAQm5mB7nWrq1QyHhNYpMPrlPIM/Uz/BPiosQ2y6DGaQqg tKHTder2noScB4PKPSkl1whfogxQobmmybspI= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.141.90.15 with SMTP id s15mr5629359rvl.137.1265729225226; Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:27:05 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20100209151759.GB835270@sgi.com> References: <725773.46216.qm@web52205.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <20100209151759.GB835270@sgi.com> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 10:27:05 -0500 Message-ID: <76fa89841002090727sdc40b16pd72f2d150696e1ff@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Lost ability to log in graphically From: Andrew Long To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 53d390aa-cbc2-4733-ba1d-bc1204a5a2c2 X-Archives-Hash: d526c006bfe035fa6550218fe0ffb8d5 On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Bob Sanders wrote: > Jim Seymour, mused, then expounded: >> >> =A0that is completely up to date package wise. The hardware does not see= m to be the issue as a gentoo live dvd works perfectly. Any ideas on how I = can get this working again? The only worthwhile errors I can find is in the= xdm.log are below. This is with a clean xdm.log, reboot, login attempt and= then killing X with ctrl_alt_bkspc. >> > > Sometimes it takes just rebuilding the device drivers, which can be > found by the gine in the xorg-server ebuild - > > =A0 emerge portage-utils; qlist -I -C x11-drivers/ > > Take that output and emerge the drivers. > > Bob I second this suggestion. There was an update to xorg a few months ago that required a rebuild of the drivers, but did not force it. What happened when I did that upgrade was that I would get the graphical login screen, but the mouse and keyboard did not work. Rebuilding the drivers fixed it for me. Andrew