On Saturday 25 June 2011 11:31:50 Pandu Poluan did opine thusly: > On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 05:00, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:43:02 +0200 (CEST), Alain DIDIERJEAN wrote: > >> I solved the problem by rebuilding xf86-input-evdev after > >> booting on an unbuntu livecd then chrooting... Took some > >> time. As for using portage > > > > Why did you need to chroot, just boot your normal system without > > X (add gentoo=nox to the kernel paramaters). > > > >> 2.2, it's listed as ~*2.2.0_alpha41, too early for me. Thanks > >> all for the help > > > > Don't let the ridiculous version number fool you, 2.2 has been > > generally usable for a couple of years. > > Honestly, the "alpha" designation also made me shy away from 2.2
It's not alpha as in alpha The rc point releases hit -99 sometime ago so Zac switched to a different prefix. Most other projects would have been a release by now. > > Really, someone should rebrand that as "beta", if 2.2 is indeed > usable for a couple of years. > > That said, thanks for the heads-up. I'll unmask it on my systems :-) > > Rgdsm -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
