From: walt <w41ter@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: is Hal required for a Synaptics touchpad ?
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:40:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <i5uas2$3fv$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100904121330.GB4247@ca.inter.net>
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?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-04 20:41 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 ` walt [this message]
2010-09-04 21:10 ` Florian Philipp
2010-09-05 14:37 ` [gentoo-user] is Hal required for a Synaptics touchpad ? -- SOLVED Philip Webb
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