Idea: When users press Ctrl+Alt+Bksp, tell them the new way to kill Xorg

[Peter Hutterer]

On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 08:47:16PM +0000, Jason Spiro wrote:
> > [...]
> > Also, ctrl-alt-backspace doesn't do you any good when your problem is
> > your keyboard input driver.  I use Gentoo, and sometimes when the core
> > is updated, the evdev driver doesn't work without a recompile.
> > [...]
> 
> So Gentoo doesn't automatically recompile evdev when it recompiles the core?  If
> not, why not?

It should only be necessary when the ABI changes - it's been stable
(upstream) since June now. Before that it changed a fair bit.

Cheers,
  Peter