Kevin O'Gorman 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
Have you tried this:
emerge -1a $(qlist -I -C x11-drivers/)
I have upgraded my kernel before without rebuilding these but they are
small and only take a few minutes. Your mileage may vary.
The mouse drivers should be in that list. If not, then something is
missing in your set up.
Dale
:-) :-)
