On 2 May 2011 08:21, Indi <thebeelzebubtrig...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > -- > If only my interface to the time-space continuum could be unix-like... With > vim keybindings, cron, and everything! > > > Thank you for your answer and information.
I will be using UDEV. -- Carlos Sura.-
