FreeBSD Port: x11-servers/xorg-server

[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 09/21/14 11:41, Robert_Burmeister wrote:
> Henry Hu wrote
>>>> On 13.09.2014 22:10, Robert Burmeister wrote:
>>>>> FreeBSD 10.1 i386
>>>>> xorg-server 1.12.4_9,1 and 1.12.4_1,1
>>>>> Still don't have mouse support after upgrade from 1.12.4_8,1
>>> [  1786.822] (EE) Failed to load module "mouse" (module does not exist,
>>> 0)
>> Have you installed x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse?
>>> [  1786.825] (EE) Failed to load module "kbd" (module does not exist, 0)
>> And x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard?
>> -- 
>> Cheers,
>> Henry
>> _______________________________________________
> Installing x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse and x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard
> fixed the problem, however, I don't understand why upgrading
> from xorg-server 1.12.4_8,1 to xorg-server 1.12.4_9,1
> would require new drivers, or lose the ones it had.
>
> I would think these drivers would/should be a dependency for xorg-server
> in the Ports system...
>
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I have had that same problem verbatim the last 2 x-server upgrades I 
did, & that was the fix, (re?)install the kbd & mouse drivers. I 
(pkg-)upgraded this A.M., no such issues ....


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