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
