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From: Jacques Montier <jacques.montier@×××××××××××.fr>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Avoiding HAL
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 09:37:05
Message-Id: 4D4A76D4.4030002@numericable.fr
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Avoiding HAL by Brian Waters
1 Le 02/02/2011 23:59, Brian Waters a écrit :
2 > Hi there. I recently took a few months off from Gentoo to try Ubuntu
3 > (I heard it "just works", and that is a Good Thing) only to find that
4 > I'd much rather be back on Gentoo again. (The fact that Ubuntu ships
5 > with PulseAudio means that sound it basically broken out of the box,
6 > and I'm excited for Xfce 4.8.)
7 >
8 > It's been a few months since I've been around, and I'd like to know if
9 > HAL has been fully deprecated yet. I'd like to avoid using it if at
10 > all possible, since that seems to be the way of the future. So I'm
11 > wondering what versions of udev and X server (and any other packages,
12 > dbus maybe?) I need to unmask in order to get rid of the HAL
13 > dependency.
14 >
15 > Thanks a lot!
16 >
17 > - BW
18 >
19 Hi
20
21 I just installed stable Gentoo on a new PC without any hal:
22 profile /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop/
23 make.conf with -hal USE
24 xorg-server 1.9.2
25 nvidia-drivers 260.19.29
26 udev 151-r4
27 dbus 1.4.1
28 xfce4 4.8
29
30 Everything works nice.
31
32 Cheers,
33
34 --
35 Jacques