From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PItaX-0003NT-J9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 01:47:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4885BE05DB; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 01:46:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07D79E05DB for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 01:46:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 897471B4158 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 01:46:25 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -0.774 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.774 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.242, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=2.067] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id tm6G-fpC6u5M for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 01:46:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D72081B409B for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 01:46:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PItZm-00076G-2F for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 02:46:14 +0100 Received: from 68.168.167.146 ([68.168.167.146]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 02:46:14 +0100 Received: from grant.b.edwards by 68.168.167.146 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 02:46:14 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)? Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 01:46:03 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <201011170200.49241.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20101118004329.GB23732@waltdnes.org> <201011180259.33235.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.168.167.146 User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1 (Linux) X-Archives-Salt: 89a36b9e-ee55-4a8b-8066-df8f36be20da X-Archives-Hash: c51782e0596f3d05270439575e75ce16 On 2010-11-18, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 02:43 on Thursday 18 November 2010, Walter > Dnes did opine thusly: > >> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 02:00:48AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote >> >> > If you then mentioned that their defaults broke Dale's setup, they'd >> > likely answer "Who's Dale?" followed shortly by "None of us have >> > hardware like Dale to test. Sorry 'bout that. Set USE=-hal" >> >> Of course the USE flag advice is given *AFTER* the new flag breaks >> your system. That's why I use "-*" at the beginning of my USE in >> /etc/make.conf. I never found out whether hal would break my system. >> If Dale had used "-*" his X would not have broken, even if some other >> ebuild pulled it onto the machine as a hard-coded dependancy. > > Looks like the *actual* problem is non-application of OYFEAL[1],not what the > devs do. Google doesn't seem to know what OYFEAL means. Do we get any hints? -- Grant