FreeBSD Port: x11-servers/xorg-server

[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 09/22/14 16:38, Patrick Powell wrote:
> On 09/21/14 16:52, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>>
>> 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 ....
>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> 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 ....
>>
>>
> Just a thought - check to make sure that the 
> x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard port on the PKGng server you are 
> using  was actually rebuilt for the new version of  xorg-server. I had 
> this problem a couple of weeks ago and the X log file hinted that the 
> keyboard driver was not compatible with the version of xorg-server.  
> At the time I thought that this was due to a lag in the PKGng server 
> building the new drivers so I compiled and installed the 
> x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard.  The problem went away.
>
> This appears to be the same sort of issue. Perhaps the driver(s) are 
> not getting rebuilt for the new version of xorg-server?  Or perhaps 
> this is related to packages on the 'with_new_xorg' PKGng server versus 
> packages on the standard PKGng server?
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Would that (drivers not getting rebuilt right) be a pkg problem or an 
X11 problem (or something else) ? Just checking ....


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