On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 03:51:02PM -0500, CJoeB wrote: > > Wild guess: xorg-server was upgraded to a newer version with changed > > ABI, so you have to remerge everthing installed under x11-drivers > > > > # emerge -1a $(qlist -I -C x11-drivers/) > > It's a little hard to do that since, I boot to a login screen and > neither my keyboard nor mouse work - despite the fact that the cursor > places itself in the password field on the login screen, I can't enter > my password since the keyboard doesn't work. :-)
Well then leave the graphical login out. Either boot to single user mode (kernel command line parameter "single", IIRC) or exclude xdm from starting during boot by pressing I after the relevant message appeared, and then saying "skip" for the xdm service. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' I forbid any use of my email addresses with Facebook services. Poverty is not a disgrace, but a bloody nuisance.
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