On Samstag 17 Oktober 2009, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I normally stay logged in forever, even after updates. I'm both busy and > lazy. However, the Xorg flurry seemed to have died down, so I took the > plunge and rebooted. Oops. > > <troll option=ignore> > It had not re-emerged xf86-input-* for me, a case that I think should be > handled automatically -- I use a source distro because I want to be able to > tweak it, not so that it can force me to do so at arbitrary, inconvenient > and unpredictable intervals. > </troll> >
gentoo is about 'doing it yourself' and 'emancipation of the user' and not about 'holding your hand'. It is not gentoo's fault if you act stupid. > > My Xorg.conf does specify some details about the monitor, but no modeline. > I had to put that stuff in there originally to get my preferred 1280x1024 > resolution. Do I need to go back to the days of modlines? Xorg.conf is > attached. Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "WDE" ModelName "LCM-20v5" Option "DPMS" EndSection ?