On 12/26/11 14:54, Paul Hartman wrote: > On 12/25/2011 02:51 PM, CJoeB wrote: >> On 12/25/11 14:20, Michael Hampicke wrote: >>>> Today, I was doing a world update and the screen locked - I still had my >>>> KDE desktop up, but couldn't open a window to kill any processes or >>>> anything. So, I held the power button to cause a reboot. The computer >>>> booted okay and gave me my login screen, but neither the keyboard nor >>>> the mouse work. >>> 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. :-) > If it happens again, in GRUB edit the kernel commandline and append > "gentoo=nox" to it and that will prevent Gentoo from starting your > graphical login manager. Or, better yet, create a second menu entry in > grub for "no X" right now, so it'll be there if you need it in the future. Thanks. This info was already provided to me. I made a note of it in the place where I keep my "Gentoo tips" so, I'll have this available to me if I need it again! :-)
Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
