On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 > > As I think I explained, I have re-emerged *everything* installed that had "x11" or "xorg" in its name. And the mouse driver was definitely there. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
