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100904 Florian Philipp wrote: |
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> Am 04.09.2010 14:13, schrieb Philip Webb: |
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>> I successfully removed Hal from my desktop machine some time ago. |
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>> Today, I tried removing it from my ASUS EEE netbook : |
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>> I dropped 'hald' from the default runlevel, |
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>> & recompiled Xorg-server + Xf86-input-synaptics with USE="-hal", |
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>> but after X opens, everything is frozen (no touchpad, no keys). |
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>> Is anyone else using a touchpad w/o Hal ? Any suggestions ? |
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> Try switching to xorg-server-1.8.2 and xorg-drivers-1.8 |
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> Make sure the udev use flag is enabled. Hope this helps |
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Yes, it did ! -- Between 3 machines with different specs, |
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it's difficult to keep track of every detail: |
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I updated to the latest testing version of everything, |
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incl Xinit & the 3 specific driver pkgs, |
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& added 'udev' to the list in make.conf , the overlooked detail. |
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I had forgotten how recently I removed Hal from my regular machine |
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-- 100703 -- & that I had to upgrade to 1.8 versions before doing so. |
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Thanks to Walt too, who also offered advice. |
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