Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Dale<rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> James wrote: >> >>> Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman <at> gmail.com> writes: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>> 'emerge -e1 world' did the trick >>>>> >>>>> >>> >>>> Okay, I was hoping for variable mileage, but maybe no dice. >>>> >>>> >>> Have you rebuilt HAL? >>> >>> >>> It might help.... >>> >>> I have rebuilt version hal-0.5.11-r9.... >>> >>> try to get back to what you had before your last (broken) >>> upgrade. Make sure you are using gcc-4.1.2, as 4.3.2 is >>> borked (many folks have different issues).... >>> >>> >>> hth, >>> >>> James >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> If all else fails: >> >> x11-base/xorg-server -hal >> >> Put that in package.use and re-emerge xorg-server. You may have to >> re-emerge mouse and keyboard too. >> >> Dale >> >> > > > Okay, I'm re-emerging hal. I was already using gcc-4.1.2. I still > have mouse and keyboard emerged, but not mentioned in the xorg.conf. > > Crossing my fingers. > > Is there any other advice? > > Is there any hope? > > ++ kevin > >
If you find yourself without a keyboard or mouse and can't get back to a console, press and hold alt + sysreq then hit R and E. I did this the other day and it took me back to a console. Since I have yet to get xorg and hal to work, good luck. Dale :-) :-)
