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 1PrJVM-0007xW-Jn for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:19:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0EE6A1C044; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:18:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D39951C044 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:18:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68F761B405A for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:18:23 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.875 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.875 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.276, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 4zPxU008N1Uq for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:18:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED8B21B4113 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:18:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PrJTb-0004vi-Cr for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 01:18:07 +0100 Received: from adsl-69-234-180-31.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.180.31]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 01:18:07 +0100 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-180-31.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 01:18:07 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: monitor acting strangely when gdm starts Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 16:17:51 -0800 Message-ID: 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> 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-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-180-31.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0b10pre) Gecko/20110121 Thunderbird/3.3a2 In-Reply-To: <32261.1298231093@ccs.covici.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: cc717d4ebaedd87f2ae5f521a44b16ca 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.