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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?





  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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