100904 Florian Philipp wrote: > 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
Yes, it did ! -- Between 3 machines with different specs, it's difficult to keep track of every detail: I updated to the latest testing version of everything, incl Xinit & the 3 specific driver pkgs, & added 'udev' to the list in make.conf , the overlooked detail. I had forgotten how recently I removed Hal from my regular machine -- 100703 -- & that I had to upgrade to 1.8 versions before doing so. Thanks to Walt too, who also offered advice. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
