Re: [gentoo-user] no keyboard no mouse

[Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>]

On Friday 24 June 2011 11:43:48 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hi, Adam.
> 
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 06:59:42PM +1000, Adam Carter wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 6:47 PM,  <alain.didierjean@free.fr> wrote:
> > > After upgrading xcb, ati driver and rebooting xorg can't read mouse
> > > and keyboard anymore. No more access to the system besides booting
> > > an unbuntu livecd. According to /var/log/Xorg.0.log, evdev cant't
> > > be loaded any more (see below). What can I do ? Is there an upgrade
> > > to evdev ?
> > 
> > No you just need to rebuild it, so emerge xf86-input-evdev
> 
> This problem hit me too.  Can you give us an explanation for needing to
> rebuild evdev?  Was there some missing dependency in an ebuild, or
> something?


from xorg-server ebuild:

                elog "You should consider reading upgrade guide for this 
release:"
                elog "  http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-
server-$(get_version_component_range 1-2)-upgrade-guide.xml"
                echo
                ewarn "You must rebuild all drivers if upgrading from <xorg-
server-$(get_version_component_range 1-2)"
                ewarn "because the ABI changed. If you cannot start X because"
                ewarn "of module version mismatch errors, this is your 
problem."

                echo
                ewarn "You can generate a list of all installed packages in 
the x11-drivers"
                ewarn "category using this command:"
                ewarn " emerge portage-utils; qlist -I -C x11-drivers/"
                ewarn "or using sets from portage-2.2:"
                ewarn " emerge @x11-module-rebuild"
        fi


people. learn to read.

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