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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?