FreeBSD Port: x11-servers/xorg-server

[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 09/21/14 18:12, Robert_Burmeister wrote:
> William A. Mahaffey III wrote
>> On 09/21/14 11:41, Robert_Burmeister 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?
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>> 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...
>>> _______________________________________________
>> 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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> Even more interesting...
> x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse and x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard
> have xorg-server as a dependency, and so cannot be a circular dependency.
>
> I'm guessing that the mouse and keyboard drivers got deleted as dependents
> of
> xorg-server during the upgrade, but there are no dependencies in my desktop
> build
> process that require that they be put back, even through a complete system
> recompile.
>
> I'm thinking 'x11-drivers/xorg-drivers' and 'x11/xorg-minimal' should be
> bumped
> when xorg-server is upgraded.
>
> (When my current recompile is done, I will check that my xorg-drivers didn't
> get removed as well.)


I am using pkg, no ports, no recompiling .... FBSD 9.3, BTW ....


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