On Sunday 20 February 2011 19:44:53 covici@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org> wrote:
> > Mick writes:
> > > On Sunday 20 February 2011 14:20:56 covici@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> > > 
> > > Oh I see.  You've upgraded xorg, but not your kernel ... ?
> > > 
> > > If this is the case, then downgrade xorg-server back to 1.7 version.
> > 
> > X.org 1.7 has been masked, and will be removed from the portage tree in
> > four weeks. Sure, you can keep the ebuilds in the local overlay, but I
> > fear this will lead to trouble eventually.
> > 
> > I will do this for a while, too, but one day I will have to deal with
> > it. This X stuff is really giving me great trouble. Or maybe I will just
> > give up and get another graphics card, my on-board Radeon HD3200 does
> > not seem to be supported well. But then, I am having trouble with X
> > since I am using Linux, there were only few, short periods of time when
> > X just worked.
> 
> Well, I could not even downgrade to 1.7 -- when I did and started gdm, I
> lost my keyboard -- I had to login from somewhere else and do chvt to
> get out.  Maybe this was because of hal or something, not sure.  I have
> in my backups an ebuild for 1.9.2.902 which seems to work in preliminary
> testing whereas 1.9.4 did not work at all with this kernel.
> 
> X stuff is sure quirky.

Yes, especially between versions!  ;-)

To get your keyboard/mouse back with version 1.7 you may need to set up those 
pesky .fdi files and of course you will need to make sure that hal is running.
-- 
Regards,
Mick