On Tuesday 01 Nov 2011 08:43:25 Mick wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am trying to troubleshoot e17 which on one laptop recently started
> shutting down the monitor backlight when the WM starts.  I can't recover
> from it, Ctrl+Alt+F1 is also showing a black screen, stopping X does not
> fix it and the only solution is to shutdown again.  Thankfully I use
> startx so I can always boot back into a console.  <phew!>
> 
> I want to find out which version this started happening from, but with
> portage 9999 ebuilds I am not sure how to specify which version I want all
> the e17 packages to download and install from svn.
> 
> Is there a particular incantation?  There's a number of packages and
> therefore I would rather not have to manually modify umpteen ebuilds a
> number of times to do this (which is what I recall I had to do with a
> wireless driver ebuild in the past).
> 
> I tried:
> 
> ESVN_OPTIONS="-r64511" emerge <blah-blah> but it did not work.

Ah!  I seem to have the syntax wrong ...

Next thing to try:  ESVN_REVISION="64511" emerge <blah-blah>
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Regards,
Mick