On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Bob Sanders <[email protected]> wrote: > Jim Seymour, mused, then expounded: >> >> that is completely up to date package wise. The hardware does not seem to >> be the issue as a gentoo live dvd works perfectly. Any ideas on how I can >> get this working again? The only worthwhile errors I can find is in the >> xdm.log are below. This is with a clean xdm.log, reboot, login attempt and >> then killing X with ctrl_alt_bkspc. >> > > Sometimes it takes just rebuilding the device drivers, which can be > found by the gine in the xorg-server ebuild - > > emerge portage-utils; qlist -I -C x11-drivers/ > > Take that output and emerge the drivers. > > Bob
I second this suggestion. There was an update to xorg a few months ago that required a rebuild of the drivers, but did not force it. What happened when I did that upgrade was that I would get the graphical login screen, but the mouse and keyboard did not work. Rebuilding the drivers fixed it for me. Andrew
