[gentoo-user] Re: Where to start with this kind of X problem

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> How can I have all these module problems but have no trouble booting
> as my regular user?
>
> It must be something else causing the error?  I'm not understanding
> why one user can startx but not another on the same hardware and same
> .initrc file.

Whooops ... I mislead any prespective readers.
It turns out even my regular user cannot startx.  Its been a while
since I left X or rebooted so I just assumbed the regular user could
still startx.

NOT SO...

I see several x11 related items were installed recently in updates.
reader > qlop --list|grep ' Jul '|grep x11
Sat Jul  4 08:22:29 2009 >>> x11-misc/util-macros-1.2.2
Sat Jul  4 08:23:25 2009 >>> x11-proto/inputproto-1.5.1
Sat Jul  4 08:23:37 2009 >>> x11-proto/dri2proto-2.1
Sat Jul  4 08:24:04 2009 >>> x11-apps/xfs-1.1.0-r1
Sat Jul  4 08:24:25 2009 >>> x11-libs/libXinerama-1.0.3
Sat Jul  4 08:29:53 2009 >>> x11-misc/xkeyboard-config-1.6
Sat Jul  4 08:41:05 2009 >>> x11-proto/glproto-1.4.10
Sat Jul  4 08:50:49 2009 >>> x11-libs/cairo-1.8.8
Sat Jul  4 08:54:21 2009 >>> x11-libs/pango-1.24.3
Sat Jul  4 09:40:38 2009 >>> x11-base/xorg-server-1.6.1.902
Sat Jul  4 09:42:44 2009 >>> x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.2.2
Tue Jul 14 08:22:54 2009 >>> x11-libs/pango-1.24.4
Tue Jul 14 11:19:40 2009 >>> x11-base/xorg-server-1.6.2-r1

Some of them matching the things I got errors about..
kbd input and 2 versions of the full server itself.

Has anyone else noticed problems with X in recent updates?

I'm backing up xorg-server to pre 1.6.1.902 to see it that does any
good but have a hunch it will involve more reinstalls than that.