xf86-input-keyboard and xf86-input-mouse masked
An update of xorg has failed to build what appear to be the latest versions of xf86-input-keyboard and xf86-input-mouse. As a result the desktop appears but does not respond to either the mouse or keyboard.
There are .ebuild files for xf86-input-keyboard-1.4.0 and xf86-input-mouse-1.5.0, but both are masked for what appear to be all platforms. What's the point of including something nobody can use? How do I 1. revert to a version of xorg that can use the drivers available, or 2. get access to the drivers for the xorg that the latest emerge world gave me? TIA Jim |
Why not unmask them and see if that works? But you can always downgrade your xorg and mask the newer version to prevent it from emerging during an upgrade.
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First thing first, what does "fails to build" mean?
What xorg-server version do you have installed right now? Recompiling the current versions of xf86-input-keyboard, xf86-input-mouse and xf86-input-evdev (if you use evdev at all) might help, you might not need to unmask anything. If that doesn't work, please, attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file in a post here so we can review it. |
I've used poor wording. I appears that when xorg-server is built, the x11-drivers need to be rebuilt to work with it. This does not happen automatically. The build does not fail. It just does not happen.
The version of xorg-server is 1.6.3.901-r2. On Sunday I 'emerge --sync' and had problems. Perhaps I was not thorough enough, but I could not rebuild the drivers in a way that xorg-server would accept. I was also having a problem with 2 versions of eselect-opengl. On Monday I 'emerge --sync' again and the eselect problem is no longer there. "emerge -aDu world" completes without error. I found elsewhere that I needed to Code:
emerge -av `qlist -I -C x11-drivers/` thanks again for your help. |
Yes, they need to be rebuilt each time xorg-server is updated (or almost, except if there's a trivial version bump for some reason).
It's very important to carefully read the output at the end of the merges. If my memory serves correctly, after emerging xorg-server you should always get a warning on your screen telling you to rebuild all the installed packages in the x11-drivers/ category. |
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