Re: [gentoo-user] no keyboard no mouse

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Saturday 25 June 2011 11:31:50 Pandu Poluan did opine thusly:
> On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 05:00, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> 
wrote:
> > On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:43:02 +0200 (CEST), Alain DIDIERJEAN wrote:
> >> I solved the problem by rebuilding xf86-input-evdev after
> >> booting on an unbuntu livecd then chrooting... Took some
> >> time. As for using portage
> > 
> > Why did you need to chroot, just boot your normal system without
> > X (add gentoo=nox to the kernel paramaters).
> > 
> >> 2.2, it's listed as ~*2.2.0_alpha41, too early for me. Thanks
> >> all for the help
> > 
> > Don't let the ridiculous version number fool you, 2.2 has been
> > generally usable for a couple of years.
> 
> Honestly, the "alpha" designation also made me shy away from 2.2

It's not alpha as in alpha

The rc point releases hit -99 sometime ago so Zac switched to a 
different prefix. Most other projects would have been a release by 
now.


> 
> Really, someone should rebrand that as "beta", if 2.2 is indeed
> usable for a couple of years.
> 
> That said, thanks for the heads-up. I'll unmask it on my systems :-)
> 
> Rgdsm
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