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.  :-)

Regards,

Colleen
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