On Sunday 20 February 2011 19:44:53 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > Alex Schuster <wo...@wonkology.org> wrote: > > Mick writes: > > > On Sunday 20 February 2011 14:20:56 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > > > > > Oh I see. You've upgraded xorg, but not your kernel ... ? > > > > > > If this is the case, then downgrade xorg-server back to 1.7 version. > > > > X.org 1.7 has been masked, and will be removed from the portage tree in > > four weeks. Sure, you can keep the ebuilds in the local overlay, but I > > fear this will lead to trouble eventually. > > > > I will do this for a while, too, but one day I will have to deal with > > it. This X stuff is really giving me great trouble. Or maybe I will just > > give up and get another graphics card, my on-board Radeon HD3200 does > > not seem to be supported well. But then, I am having trouble with X > > since I am using Linux, there were only few, short periods of time when > > X just worked. > > Well, I could not even downgrade to 1.7 -- when I did and started gdm, I > lost my keyboard -- I had to login from somewhere else and do chvt to > get out. Maybe this was because of hal or something, not sure. I have > in my backups an ebuild for 1.9.2.902 which seems to work in preliminary > testing whereas 1.9.4 did not work at all with this kernel. > > X stuff is sure quirky.
Yes, especially between versions! ;-) To get your keyboard/mouse back with version 1.7 you may need to set up those pesky .fdi files and of course you will need to make sure that hal is running. -- Regards, Mick
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
