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Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 10:27:05 -0500
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Lost ability to log in graphically
From: Andrew Long <jandrewlong@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Bob Sanders <rsanders@sgi.com> 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