Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server upgrade

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 4:05 PM, john <john@arcticwolf.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
> Hello,
>        After updating my machine which included upgrading
>        xorg-server-1.7.6. I was left with a none working mouse and
>        keyboard. After an hour or so of checking I decided to
>        re-emerge xorg-server again to discover a message to rebuild
>        x11-drivers. I rebuilt x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev and mouse
>        and keyboard worked again.
>
>        Question 1
>        Should x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev be rebuilt automatically
>        after xorg-server upgrade?
>

Check out module-rebuild. You put a list of packages in it - evdev,
keyboard, nvidia-drivers, vmware-modules, etc., and then just run it
after an xorg-server upgrade or a kernel change. Once you set it up
you don't have to remember too much about which packages need to be
rebuilt. I just run

module-rebuild -X rebuild

and it all gets done for me.

Hope this helps,
Mark