On 12/12/2009, walt <w41...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/12/2009 12:55 AM, Mick wrote:
>> ...
>> Not sure if it is related but I am getting this:
>>
>>>>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...
>> /sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libltdl.so.3 is not a symbolic link
>>
>> What does this mean?  revdep-rebuild does not show anything needing to
>> be rebuilt.
>
> That must be a very old file. Here's what I have:
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 41652 2009-12-08 06:30 /usr/lib/libltdl.a
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   919 2009-12-08 06:30 /usr/lib/libltdl.la
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    16 2009-12-08 06:31 /usr/lib/libltdl.so ->
> libltdl.so.7.2.1*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    16 2009-12-08 06:31 /usr/lib/libltdl.so.7 ->
> libltdl.so.7.2.1*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 34252 2009-12-08 06:30 /usr/lib/libltdl.so.7.2.1*

Mine are slightly different.  I also have /usr/lib/lbltdl.so.0 ->
libltdl.so.0.1.2 and also have

libltdl.so.0.1.2
libltdl.so.3
libltdl.so.3.1.0

> If you also have these files then just delete the so.3 version.

Thanks, I'll check for dependencies and then remove them.

>> Otherwise, I've downgraded xkbcomp with no joy and now I am
>> downgrading xorg-server to see if this has any effect.
>
> I'm struggling to understand all the keyboard stuff too.  Do you still
> use an xorg.conf file?  If you are using evdev then you should not be
> using the xf86-input-mouse or xf86-input-keyboard drivers, just the
> xf86-input-evdev driver.  I have the entire input section of xorg.conf
> commented out and evdev seems to be the default input driver now.

I have had mouse, keyboard and synaptics along with evdev in my
INPUT_DEVICES and have emerged relative drivers.  I am now going to
remove them and see what gives.

I am not clear which /etc/hal/fdi/policy/* files I should have in
there ... any ideas?

> I'll bet xdm is hiding the really helpful error messages, so I would
> shut off xdm and use startx to see if you get any better information.

Thanks, will try that too.
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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