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

Rémi Cardona remi at gentoo.org
Fri Dec 4 15:25:49 PST 2009


Le 04/12/2009 21:47, Jason Spiro a écrit :
>> [...]
>> 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?

There's a notification to rebuild X drivers when updating the server, 
along with a simple one-liner command to do so very easily.

It's the user's responsability to do that, since we're a source distro.

Cheers,

Rémi


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