Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com
<mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
About a week ago, my Gentoo box was in a bad state where there
were some packages that would not install, so I was carefully
emerging what I could and filed a bug about one in particular
that I could not emerge.
Then I got a new kernel, 2.6.32-gentoo-r7, and I booted from
it. Eeeek. No X11 at all.
The logs informed me about some things to do, and I did them,
re-emerging a number of things. I paid particular attention
to emerging anything with x11 or xorg in its name.
Long wait.
I got to a point somewhere in there where X11 started, but
would recognize neither keyboard nor mouse.
I kept going. The keyboard started to work. I could actually
log in, but that's not all that useful without a mouse.
Then I started getting complaints about USE flags needed to
make some particular packages support some other packages. I
did those too.
Now I'm at the state where "emerge -aDNvu" denies there's any
work to do, and revdep-rebuild reports health.
Still no mouse.
Fortunately, I have a laptop that can ssh into the box and I
can work with it, but it's still essentially headless.
Anybody run into this state recently?
If there's a quick fix, I'd rather not make another bug.
--
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
Have you tried this:
emerge -1a $(qlist -I -C x11-drivers/)
I have upgraded my kernel before without rebuilding these but they
are small and only take a few minutes. Your mileage may vary.
The mouse drivers should be in that list. If not, then something
is missing in your set up.
Dale
As I think I explained, I have re-emerged *everything* installed that
had "x11" or "xorg" in its name. And the mouse driver was definitely
there.
--
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
That usually works so I'm clueless. I assume the mouse works somewhere
else? I think you mentioned it working somewhere so I'm out of ideas.
Sorry.
Dale
:-) :-)
