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