On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 10:20:03PM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
> Carlos Sura writes:
> 
> > I just have one question, reciently I read in a forum that HAL might be
> > deprecated on Gentoo, so, I started using UDEV:
> > 
> > USE=" -hal  udev"
> > 
> > But, then I have this problem, updating xorg-server won't work, every
> > new version of xorg-server just give me a blank screen, so I thought it
> > might be something with HAL or UDEV.
> 
> Did you rebuild all xorg modules with emerge @x11-module-rebuild or
> emerge -1 $( qlist -IC x11-drivers/ ) after building xorg-server?
> Are there errors in /var/log/Xorg.0.log?
> 
> > I would like to know if someone could tell me if I should be using HAL
> > or UDEV? I want to know more, differences, etc.
> 
> You should use udev. All versions of xorg-server in the current portage
> tree already no longer have the hal use flag, so I assume HAL is not
> being used at all anyway.
> 
>       Wonko

Yep, use udev. Works fine here, even on my "~x86" thinkpad.
Refer to this:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml 

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