On Friday 24 June 2011 11:43:48 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hi, Adam.
>
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 06:59:42PM +1000, Adam Carter wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 6:47 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > After upgrading xcb, ati driver and rebooting xorg can't read mouse
> > > and keyboard anymore. No more access to the system besides booting
> > > an unbuntu livecd. According to /var/log/Xorg.0.log, evdev cant't
> > > be loaded any more (see below). What can I do ? Is there an upgrade
> > > to evdev ?
> >
> > No you just need to rebuild it, so emerge xf86-input-evdev
>
> This problem hit me too. Can you give us an explanation for needing to
> rebuild evdev? Was there some missing dependency in an ebuild, or
> something?
from xorg-server ebuild:
elog "You should consider reading upgrade guide for this
release:"
elog " http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-
server-$(get_version_component_range 1-2)-upgrade-guide.xml"
echo
ewarn "You must rebuild all drivers if upgrading from <xorg-
server-$(get_version_component_range 1-2)"
ewarn "because the ABI changed. If you cannot start X because"
ewarn "of module version mismatch errors, this is your
problem."
echo
ewarn "You can generate a list of all installed packages in
the x11-drivers"
ewarn "category using this command:"
ewarn " emerge portage-utils; qlist -I -C x11-drivers/"
ewarn "or using sets from portage-2.2:"
ewarn " emerge @x11-module-rebuild"
fi
people. learn to read.
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