On Jun 26, 2011 6:56 PM, "Philip Webb" <purs...@ca.inter.net> 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. > > My point is that it looks -- to a naive user -- like a good opportunity > for another 'virtual', which wb satisfied by Evdev or equivalent. > This would avoid the problem when busy users miss the warning notice > (see a current users' thread). > > Perhaps this would in turn need an extension of the 'virtual' concept, > to require rebuilding of the relevant pkg to satisfy the main emerge. > There is another thread today re 'revdep-rebuild' + Python + Perl, > which seems to cover a bit of the same ground. > > Thanks as always to the devs for their conscientious unpaid efforts. > > -- > ========================,,============================================ > SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb > ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto > TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca > >
portage 2.2 has a nice set for that called @x11-module-rebuild :) Alex | wired
