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From: Carlos Sura <carlos.sura1@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] HAL or UDEV...
Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 18:29:30
Message-Id: BANLkTikOjZcADe2C=s3yt4COagZL28FjiA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] HAL or UDEV... by Indi
1 On 2 May 2011 08:21, Indi <thebeelzebubtrigger@×××××.com> wrote:
2
3 > On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 10:20:03PM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
4 > > Carlos Sura writes:
5 > >
6 > > > I just have one question, reciently I read in a forum that HAL might be
7 > > > deprecated on Gentoo, so, I started using UDEV:
8 > > >
9 > > > USE=" -hal udev"
10 > > >
11 > > > But, then I have this problem, updating xorg-server won't work, every
12 > > > new version of xorg-server just give me a blank screen, so I thought it
13 > > > might be something with HAL or UDEV.
14 > >
15 > > Did you rebuild all xorg modules with emerge @x11-module-rebuild or
16 > > emerge -1 $( qlist -IC x11-drivers/ ) after building xorg-server?
17 > > Are there errors in /var/log/Xorg.0.log?
18 > >
19 > > > I would like to know if someone could tell me if I should be using HAL
20 > > > or UDEV? I want to know more, differences, etc.
21 > >
22 > > You should use udev. All versions of xorg-server in the current portage
23 > > tree already no longer have the hal use flag, so I assume HAL is not
24 > > being used at all anyway.
25 > >
26 > > Wonko
27 >
28 > Yep, use udev. Works fine here, even on my "~x86" thinkpad.
29 > Refer to this:
30 > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml
31 >
32 > --
33 > If only my interface to the time-space continuum could be unix-like... With
34 > vim keybindings, cron, and everything!
35 >
36 >
37 >
38 Thank you for your answer and information.
39
40 I will be using UDEV.
41
42 --
43 Carlos Sura.-