have you tried emergeing x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev and x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse on their own without xorg?
Cheers Kad On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogor...@gmail.com> wrote: > About a week ago, my Gentoo box was in a bad state where there were some > packages that would not install, so I was carefully emerging what I could > and filed a bug about one in particular that I could not emerge. > > Then I got a new kernel, 2.6.32-gentoo-r7, and I booted from it. Eeeek. No > X11 at all. > The logs informed me about some things to do, and I did them, re-emerging a > number of things. I paid particular attention to emerging anything with x11 > or xorg in its name. > Long wait. > I got to a point somewhere in there where X11 started, but would recognize > neither keyboard nor mouse. > I kept going. The keyboard started to work. I could actually log in, but > that's not all that useful without a mouse. > Then I started getting complaints about USE flags needed to make some > particular packages support some other packages. I did those too. > Now I'm at the state where "emerge -aDNvu" denies there's any work to do, > and revdep-rebuild reports health. > Still no mouse. > Fortunately, I have a laptop that can ssh into the box and I can work with > it, but it's still essentially headless. > Anybody run into this state recently? > If there's a quick fix, I'd rather not make another bug. > -- > Kevin O'Gorman, PhD > >
