On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de> wrote: > On 07/13/2010 08:14 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Tamer Higazi<th9...@googlemail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Mark! >>> you were entirely right, the problem were the input drivers. >>> >>> There three packages I remerged: >>> >>> xf86-input-mouse >>> xf86-input-keyboard >>> xf86-input-evdev >>> >>> and the problem was gone. >>> >>> >>> Tamer >> >> Glad it worked. Investigate modules-rebuild as it keeps track of these >> things and does it for you pretty easily. Here's what's in my list: >> >> c2stable ~ # module-rebuild list >> ** Packages which I will emerge are: >> =x11-base/xorg-drivers-1.7 >> =x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.3.2 >> =x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.13.0 >> =x11-drivers/xf86-video-fbdev-0.4.2 >> =x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard-1.4.0 >> =x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse-1.5.0 >> =x11-drivers/xf86-video-vmware-11.0.1 >> =media-libs/mesa-7.8.1 > > All of the above are not kernel modules. Kernel updates don't affect them, > only xorg-server updates do. > > >> =app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.26 > > Only this is affected by kernel updates. >
No disagreement on that, but frankly it doesn't matter to me. It works. Takes about 1 minute to rebuild these files. I don't care (as a user type) why I have to do it. I do it and my machine works. It covers kernel and xorg updates. That's OK with me. Or maybe you're just pointing this out to the OP? I suspect I might have failed with the same problem as the OP myself this morning had I used not it. There was an xorg-driver update that didn't update all the input devices in my make.conf file. (evdev specifically) This command did. Maybe I didn't need to rebuild evdev after an sorg-driver update but I suspect you'd agree it's safer if I do. Sometimes the tools take care of things that are just oversights. Matters not that I shouldn't have to do it. Matters more that the machine works. Cheers, Mark
