Dale: >Sounds like you are having fun with your upgrade too.
:-D >On my kernel, I'm using 2.6.23. It was the last one I could get to boot >so i stuck with it. This one should have the mentioned option of enabling evdev, e.g. with make menuconfig. You can do so, recompile the kernel and keep it in this way. Or you could put the mentioned three lines in xorg.conf to disable hal. Or you could emerge xorg-server with USE="-hal". Hartmut
