Re: [gentoo-user] Avoiding HAL

[Paul Hartman]

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Brian Waters <brianmwaters@×××××.com> wrote:
> Hi there. I recently took a few months off from Gentoo to try Ubuntu
> (I heard it "just works", and that is a Good Thing) only to find that
> I'd much rather be back on Gentoo again. (The fact that Ubuntu ships
> with PulseAudio means that sound it basically broken out of the box,
> and I'm excited for Xfce 4.8.)
>
> It's been a few months since I've been around, and I'd like to know if
> HAL has been fully deprecated yet. I'd like to avoid using it if at
> all possible, since that seems to be the way of the future. So I'm
> wondering what versions of udev and X server (and any other packages,
> dbus maybe?) I need to unmask in order to get rid of the HAL
> dependency.
>
> Thanks a lot!

http://www.x.org/wiki/XorgHAL

Xorg 1.8 and newer should have udev-instead-of-HAL available.