[gentoo-user] is Hal required for a Synaptics touchpad ?

[gentoo-user] is Hal required for a Synaptics touchpad ?

[Philip Webb]

I successfully removed Hal from my desktop machine some time ago.
Today, I tried removing it from my ASUS EEE netbook :
I dropped 'hald' from the default runlevel,
& recompiled Xorg-server + Xf86-input-synaptics with USE="-hal",
but after X opens, everything is frozen (no touchpad, no keys).

Is anyone else using a touchpad w/o Hal ?  Any suggestions ?

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[gentoo-user] Re: is Hal required for a Synaptics touchpad ?

[walt]

On 09/04/2010 05:13 AM, Philip Webb wrote:
> I successfully removed Hal from my desktop machine some time ago.
> Today, I tried removing it from my ASUS EEE netbook :
> I dropped 'hald' from the default runlevel,
> &  recompiled Xorg-server + Xf86-input-synaptics with USE="-hal",
> but after X opens, everything is frozen (no touchpad, no keys).

I'd try recompiling xf86-input-evdev as well.  If that doesn't fix
the problem then start looking through the X logfile for error
messages.

How is the touchpad connected to the notebook?

Re: [gentoo-user] is Hal required for a Synaptics touchpad ?

[Florian Philipp]

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Am 04.09.2010 14:13, schrieb Philip Webb:
> I successfully removed Hal from my desktop machine some time ago.
> Today, I tried removing it from my ASUS EEE netbook :
> I dropped 'hald' from the default runlevel,
> & recompiled Xorg-server + Xf86-input-synaptics with USE="-hal",
> but after X opens, everything is frozen (no touchpad, no keys).
> 
> Is anyone else using a touchpad w/o Hal ?  Any suggestions ?
> 

Try switching to xorg-server-1.8.2 and xorg-drivers-1.8
Make sure the udev use flag is enabled.

Hope this helps,
Florian Philipp


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Re: [gentoo-user] is Hal required for a Synaptics touchpad ? -- SOLVED

[Philip Webb]

100904 Florian Philipp wrote:
> Am 04.09.2010 14:13, schrieb Philip Webb:
>> I successfully removed Hal from my desktop machine some time ago.
>> Today, I tried removing it from my ASUS EEE netbook :
>> I dropped 'hald' from the default runlevel,
>> & recompiled Xorg-server + Xf86-input-synaptics with USE="-hal",
>> but after X opens, everything is frozen (no touchpad, no keys).
>> Is anyone else using a touchpad w/o Hal ?  Any suggestions ?
> Try switching to xorg-server-1.8.2 and xorg-drivers-1.8
> Make sure the udev use flag is enabled.  Hope this helps

Yes, it did ! -- Between  3  machines with different specs,
it's difficult to keep track of every detail:
I updated to the latest testing version of everything,
incl Xinit & the  3  specific driver pkgs,
& added 'udev' to the list in  make.conf , the overlooked detail.
I had forgotten how recently I removed Hal from my regular machine
-- 100703 -- & that I had to upgrade to 1.8 versions before doing so.

Thanks to Walt too, who also offered advice.

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