On Tuesday 01 Nov 2011 08:43:25 Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I am trying to troubleshoot e17 which on one laptop recently started > shutting down the monitor backlight when the WM starts. I can't recover > from it, Ctrl+Alt+F1 is also showing a black screen, stopping X does not > fix it and the only solution is to shutdown again. Thankfully I use > startx so I can always boot back into a console. <phew!> > > I want to find out which version this started happening from, but with > portage 9999 ebuilds I am not sure how to specify which version I want all > the e17 packages to download and install from svn. > > Is there a particular incantation? There's a number of packages and > therefore I would rather not have to manually modify umpteen ebuilds a > number of times to do this (which is what I recall I had to do with a > wireless driver ebuild in the past). > > I tried: > > ESVN_OPTIONS="-r64511" emerge <blah-blah> but it did not work.
Ah! I seem to have the syntax wrong ... Next thing to try: ESVN_REVISION="64511" emerge <blah-blah> -- Regards, Mick
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