On 12/21/2010 9:41 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > To summarize > > 1. All is running fine but. > > 2. deplcean wants to remove hal and when it does xdm will not run.
Is it just xdm that doesn't run? That is, if you disable xdm and log in via the console, can you run startx? It's possible that your Xorg configuration is relying on some device or setting that HAL is providing for you but udev itself isn't. (Can't think of anything specific offhand, though). If this were the case, trying to run X by itself as root should also fail. You would also see the errors in your Xorg.0.log file, pointing to whichever device is the problem. To fix this, you'd need to find and remove the offending device reference. A good first start is to try simply removing any xorg.conf you happen to have lying around and let X try to find everything itself (without HAL). --Mike
