On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> <SNIP> >> >>> Thanks. I'm not sure if this is part of the xorg-server update and I >>> missed downgrading something or if it is something else. I know I >>> downloaded pics just before all that mess happened tho. Mine is ptp as >>> well. I think most all Canons are. >>> >>> Look forward to hearing whether yours works or not. Also, my printer >>> don't work either. Anything USB is dead. >>> >>> Dale >>> >>> :-) :-) >>> >> >> If you downgraded the xorg-server then I'd ask if were you using hald >> before the upgrade and if not did you try shutting it off? >> >> - Mark >> >> >> > > I was using hald, dbus and even ivman before the upgrade. I have tried > reemerging xorg-server with and without hal and it makes no difference. > I think the problem is BEFORE even hal comes into the picture. lsusb > doesn't report anything being connected either and I think it would even > if a GUI was not running. I don't think this is related to xorg-server > or KDE and friends. It acts like a kernel problem but I'm booting the > same old kernel that I have had for quite a while now. I can't upgrade > because the new kernel doesn't like my IDE chipset and gcc doesn't like > it much either. I get compile errors that according to google are being > fixed. Those two appear to be related.
I don't know about the printer... but if you re-emerge libgphoto2 it will (or will tell you how to) generate the udev rules and HAL fdi file for camera support, just in case one or the other of those got hosed in your upgrade/downgrade nightmare.
