On Saturday 08 May 2010 16:01:18 Francisco Ares wrote: > On 5/8/10, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Saturday 08 May 2010 14:48:13 Francisco Ares wrote: > >> Hi, guys, > >> > >> After quite a long update list of packages (100+) and a reboot, I could > >> not > >> work in any window or desktop manager I have installed. > >> > >> I rebooted (the ACPI power switch worked fine) and managed to get > >> interactive action during the init scripts and did not allowed "xdm" to > >> start. > >> > >> Then I was able to use normaly the keyboard and mouse ("gpm"). Forced > >> reinstall of xorg-server, xorg-drivers, xorg-cf-files, xdm, kdm (also, > >> in my case, nvidia-drivers) and tryed to use Window Maker - no mouse > >> movements, although the pointer was there, and no visible keyboard > >> effect. > >> > >> Any hints on how to get things back? > > > > What version of xorg-server? > > It gives an elog, did you read it? > > What input driver? > > If you upgraded to xorg-server-1.8, did you disable hal and enable udev? > > Are you using the evdev driver? > > > > > > -- > > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > > Yep, using evdev, and that seems to be the issue: there are log file > lines complaining about different versions: > > (II) Module evdev: vendor="X.Org Foundation" > compiled for 1.6.5, module version = 2.3.2 > Module class: X.Org XInput Driver > ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 4.0 > (EE) module ABI major version (4) doesn't match server's version (7) > > installed: > - xorg-drivers-1.7 > - xorg-server-1.7.6 > - xorg-x11-7.4-r1 > - xorg-cf-files-1.0.3
Did you explicitly remerge the various drivers (video, evdev, etc). xorg-drivers is just a meta package and won't remerge individual drivers unless the version number changes. It look to me like you have an evdev driver built against an earlier X server -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com