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 1PrKD1-00053W-C7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 01:05:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 098E71C0E3; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 01:03:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yi0-f53.google.com (mail-yi0-f53.google.com [209.85.218.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C96D91C078 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 01:03:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yie21 with SMTP id 21so795242yie.40 for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:03:35 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=VLmFlu8wVYoqgFLRQfo3cwboCobnuOI933OvGk/7FI4=; b=cYTo8DqA1mAuA384x3G6oDRpbpeS6Kc1jeJEul+cgUXP7FefhWp1HS6eG9hsrS5Ckw tw/mxw24d1bY8Onmnndq201sHXBR3Es2hhLzPLzD9Wlk/3oRgGeyQC1NDFzf4b+WcDMO qyMXeQkL00URY8PoKjbAbE3LeUaQg7DiiOPS4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Ysv19zHTlIs4yKLDSY4Ih4Prp15hKL6qweQnp/ZZl1lC4SwGi+NMDQ/BwAcN2rJkP9 F7LrUWP6ZLk2XRn3CRIxgtGLUba8W8ItqmIWGz9v3+f9d4xj0qGeS5CRNMP7z6hxplgL LhZqOs/pJviCqoDcR/NNszNUXwqOY5lFWzBKQ= Received: by 10.91.127.6 with SMTP id e6mr1039937agn.15.1298250215194; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:03:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-0-93-174.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.93.174]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b27sm93192ana.8.2011.02.20.17.03.31 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:03:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D61B9D9.7020907@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 19:03:21 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20110217 Gentoo/2.0.11 SeaMonkey/2.0.11 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: monitor acting strangely when gdm starts References: <14727.1298025315@ccs.covici.com> <201102181858.34767.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <2491.1298211656@ccs.covici.com> <201102201505.56842.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <4D61380A.70609@wonkology.org> <32261.1298231093@ccs.covici.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 32250f34169535cdb17783f6f3f48d45 walt wrote: > On 02/20/2011 11:44 AM, covici@ccs.covici.com wrote: > >> Well, I could not even downgrade to 1.7 -- when I did and started gdm, I >> lost my keyboard -- > > Whenever you install a new (up or down) Xorg server version you must also > rebuild *all* of the X device drivers e.g. mouse, keyboard, evdev, xf86- > video-whatever, synaptics, etc. > > This is not obvious, so it's a very common problem. > > > I saved this when someone posted it. I think it was in one of the news thingys too. rebuild input drivers after xorg upgrade emerge -1a $(qlist -I -C x11-drivers/) That may help. Dale :-) :-)