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 1QjVWc-0005mD-Ur for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:05:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 33ABC21C10F; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:05:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.virtyou.com (mx.virtyou.com [94.23.166.77]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4875321C06A for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:03:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from weird.localnet (p5B274AD9.dip.t-dialin.net [91.39.74.217]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx.virtyou.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6E753416014 for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:03:49 +0200 (CEST) From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: evdev broken? Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:03:48 +0200 Message-ID: <3142440.jWue4OGtAY@weird> User-Agent: KMail/4.6.1 (Linux/2.6.38-pf8; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <4E2673A7.8050805@gmail.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-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 9ecc99b5c16c6dd0fb791502760c78e7 Francisco Ares writes: > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 3:20 AM, Dale wrote: > > Mick wrote: > >> Every time after you emerge xorg you're meant to remerge its drivers > >> (evdev being one of them). Usually there is some elog message telling > >> you to run > >> > >> qfile to find what is need to be reinstalled: > >> qlist -I -C x11-drivers/ > > > > I think this works too: > > > > emerge -1av @x11-module-rebuild > > > > Correct me if I am wrong here. > Thanks for replying, but emerge tells me there are no sets to satisfy > 'x11-module-rebuild' . Where would it come from? As far as I could tell, > those sets are manually set, isn't it? No, you just need a newer portage, probably a version >= 2.2. This seems to be safe and is often suggested here on this list. Although there are frequent updates and I wonder if some big bug might slide into portage one day. If you want to do so, put And by the way, what is the use of 'xorg-drivers' package ? I think it's just some sort of meta package pulling in the real drivers. At least the output of equery files xorg-drivers is empty. Wonko