110626 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 06/26/2011 06:54 PM, Philip Webb wrote:
>> Yesterday, I upgraded 'xorg-drivers' to the latest stable 1.10
>> & then found upon rebooting that X failed to recognise the keyboard.
>> Yes, it's happened before& I was not surprised:
>> I had to switch the machine off, reboot, login as root
>> -- experience long ago made me avoid booting directly into a GUI --
>> & recompile 'xf86-input-evdev', after which everything returned to normal.
>> Yes, there's a warning after the new 'xorg-drivers' has been installed,
>> but I wasn't sure exactly which pkg(s) needed remerging, so took the chance.
> it gives you an actual command that will emerge all x11-drivers/*.
Yes, but it's not precise enough :
root:534 xorg-server> qlist -I -C x11-drivers/
x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev
x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv
x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa
The only one I needed to remerge is the 2nd in the list.
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