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From: Florian Philipp <lists@f_philipp.fastmail.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] is Hal required for a Synaptics touchpad ?
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 23:10:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C82B5BA.8020001@f_philipp.fastmail.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100904121330.GB4247@ca.inter.net>

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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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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-04 21:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-04 12:13 [gentoo-user] is Hal required for a Synaptics touchpad ? Philip Webb
2010-09-04 20:40 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2010-09-04 21:10 ` Florian Philipp [this message]
2010-09-05 14:37   ` [gentoo-user] is Hal required for a Synaptics touchpad ? -- SOLVED Philip Webb

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