From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Fx7EN-0002Y4-LC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 02 Jul 2006 19:03:44 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k62J1mwX024751; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 19:01:48 GMT Received: from mxo3.broadbandsupport.net (mxo3.broadbandsupport.net [209.55.3.83]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k62IuAaK028685 for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 18:56:11 GMT Received: from [192.168.100.4] (unknown [207.68.230.60]) by mxo3.broadbandsupport.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84B0F2C58F for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 14:56:07 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <44A816C6.3030305@vista-express.com> Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 13:56:06 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060629 SeaMonkey/1.0.2 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg worked! Minor issues....Thanks, Gentoo References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-broadbandsupport.net-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-broadbandsupport.net-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-broadbandsupport.net-MailScanner-From: teendale@vista-express.com X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: 89327c5c-ef58-4358-8f7b-4fad94801666 X-Archives-Hash: 38a08e8e0a3de3be90754e5d8204ebcb dnlt0hn5ntzhbqkv51 wrote: > > > It just plain worked! > > Emerge even identified -only- my drivers (mouse, keyboard, etc.) > before I scanned xorg.conf. > > Minor problems: > > 1. The emerge stoped at one point because the uninstall failed to > remove an obscure library (perhaps /var/lib/xkb ? sorry, I should have > noted it). But emerge identified the directory and told me to delete > it. A restart allowed successful completion. It was /var/lib/X11/xkb. I got the same error and I just copied it somewhere else then deleted it. All was well after that. Emerge --resume carried on. > > < snip > > > So thank you to Gentoo the Developers - another successful plan and > instructions on your part, that worked just fine for newbies like me! > > > .. > --gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > I was so glad to see that login screen pop up. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list