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 1MPqcB-0000o5-Nd for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 04:24:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C113FE02FA; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 04:24:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from crowfix.com (crowfix.com [216.240.38.154]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DA37E02FA for ; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 04:24:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 27094 invoked by uid 1000); 12 Jul 2009 04:24:24 -0000 Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:24:24 -0700 From: felix@crowfix.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: X broken; keyboard for sure, maybe dri -- FIXED Message-ID: <20090712042424.GA26640@crowfix.com> References: <20090705020527.GA30622@crowfix.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090705020527.GA30622@crowfix.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Archives-Salt: e65caade-aa87-4ece-813c-bd746e1dc635 X-Archives-Hash: cc8dd2bc9c833eeb45923f3445806e1e On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 07:05:27PM -0700, felix@crowfix.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. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / felix@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o