Re: [gentoo-user] XServer hal useflag

[Florian Philipp]

Am 26.06.2010 20:32, schrieb Albert Hopkins:
> On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 20:24 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:
[..]
>> I'm a bit confused about the meaning of the hal useflag on the
>> x11-base/xorg-server ebuilds nowadays. When I deactivate it, hot-plugin
>> a mouse does not work and special keys on the keyboard are not detected.
>> When I enable it, everything works but several driver packages (evdev
>> and mouse, probably others) want me to deactivate it.
>>
[...]
> So many softwares that used hal before are or have
> migrated to something else, such as udev.  Xorg has also chosen to do
> this, and so the newer Xorg servers can use udev instead of hal.  There
> is a udev flag for xorg-server.  You can/should use this instead of hal.
[...]

Thanks for the update! Unfortunately, the first X-Server version with a
udev useflag hasn't been stabilized on AMD64, yet. I keyworded it and it
worked ... somewhat. I now have other problems but since these are
unrelated to hal vs. udev, I open another thread for it.

Thanks,
Florian Philipp