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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)?
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 01:47:02
Message-Id: ic20gq$jq0$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)? by Alan McKinnon
1 On 2010-11-18, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > Apparently, though unproven, at 02:43 on Thursday 18 November 2010, Walter
3 > Dnes did opine thusly:
4 >
5 >> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 02:00:48AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote
6 >>
7 >> > If you then mentioned that their defaults broke Dale's setup, they'd
8 >> > likely answer "Who's Dale?" followed shortly by "None of us have
9 >> > hardware like Dale to test. Sorry 'bout that. Set USE=-hal"
10 >>
11 >> Of course the USE flag advice is given *AFTER* the new flag breaks
12 >> your system. That's why I use "-*" at the beginning of my USE in
13 >> /etc/make.conf. I never found out whether hal would break my system<G>.
14 >> If Dale had used "-*" his X would not have broken, even if some other
15 >> ebuild pulled it onto the machine as a hard-coded dependancy.
16 >
17 > Looks like the *actual* problem is non-application of OYFEAL[1],not what the
18 > devs do.
19
20 Google doesn't seem to know what OYFEAL means. Do we get any hints?
21
22 --
23 Grant

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)? Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)? "Sebastian Beßler" <sebastian@××××××××××××.de>