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Am 26.06.2010 20:32, schrieb Albert Hopkins: |
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> Originally Xorg required you to pretty much specify all your devices and |
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> configuration in your xorg.conf file. Then the option came to use hal |
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> to help with identifying, hot-plugging, and auto-configuring devices. |
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> Well in general hal has fallen out of favor for reasons beyond the scope |
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> of this discussion. So many softwares that used hal before are or have |
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> migrated to something else, such as udev. Xorg has also chosen to do |
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> this, and so the newer Xorg servers can use udev instead of hal. There |
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> is a udev flag for xorg-server. You can/should use this instead of hal. |
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> Using neither hal nor udev gives you the "legacy" mode where everything |
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> is (must be) configured via configuration file. |
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Is it time already to set "-hal" in make.conf and get rid of hal? |
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I run xorg-server without hal for quite a while now, but there are other |
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packages as well using that flag. |
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Hints? |
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I could simply try, yes ;-) |
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