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 1PmvfU-0007Lw-Uv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 08 Feb 2011 22:04:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0E5531C013; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 22:02:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4DB71C013 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 22:02:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwi18 with SMTP id 18so6122840wwi.10 for ; Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:02:07 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent :references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=QTfL9jOMXR8r3YfH54e5jx4CXkaSvPAEDLJcYIP6JO8=; b=tWtaZVRUCUkZnj36C5843B8iw4JzIYZhAPdeqrKfsPKs/+cYldFkJZpMVyKC9aqDGq pYPBsPnn3tl8YLIxi+LMXvnQT2kbd3vtvCID7fqjvuZjKjg0c2Njy8biE0grGRWt4dcV HhOJ8gN/ARuq7K5GGoRWiF7TY1Fu4lxVqjYMA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=dYpzpCze02lXpR8Q3l9ZpVK/iBzUwh2uSQmhBMI+KwdIDJjLTO3GucoumcftbbJ4/v m/++Nx3IAJDT+eJR8BsYoamjgkWROYMIH+0fC03t9QOSf/tNspJ8iNT2SQwk8H5BK1sC qz633yt8ZV5pBkM8Kvn7uNVnhp/mi9H2UWUjA= Received: by 10.227.129.83 with SMTP id n19mr5029548wbs.174.1297202526888; Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:02:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id u9sm4843299wbg.0.2011.02.08.14.02.05 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:02:05 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg segfaults, but GDM welcome screen loads Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 22:02:06 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.36-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <201102072305.44529.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: 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: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1829024.jhL4tchb7b"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201102082202.17675.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 52f1e652dc48e082972cc10542cf1663 --nextPart1829024.jhL4tchb7b Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tuesday 08 February 2011 16:38:34 Grant wrote: > >> I only mention it because in my experience I always have weird shit > >> happening when I upgrade xorg-server over a big version number change. > >>=20 > >> And rebuilding everything that underpins xorg always fixes it. Includi= ng > >> drivers and mesa. > >>=20 > >> In the old days when xorg was monolithic this never happened, as all t= he > >> drivers always got rebuilt anyway. Nowadays with xorg sources being > >> modular, we have to be a little more alert. > >=20 > > ... and if you have just upgraded to xorg-server-1.9 you'll (probably) > > need an xorg.conf file. The old .fdi files are no longer being used. > > -- > > Regards, > > Mick >=20 > My laptop is on xorg-server-1.9.2 and it doesn't use an xorg.conf. In > what type of situation is it needed? When you want to configure different languages on the keyboard, synaptics,= =20 etc, and when evdev doesn't work nicely with your set up. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1829024.jhL4tchb7b Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk1RvWkACgkQVTDTR3kpaLY/wwCfYN3RkMm0mNbbCnfpH6kIqVB8 RbAAn3/ax/EZ1oeI28/zhlo6LoVYLVGc =V8gj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1829024.jhL4tchb7b--