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On 11/4/2009 10:51 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> I didn't want to derail the ongoing thread about hal/xorg with this |
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> question there. |
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> Far as I remember I haven't done anything special concerning hal but |
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> at some point hal disappeared. And is not on my system anymore. |
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I believe that some packages in portage recently masked off the "hal" |
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USE flag (GNOME stuff, maybe?), so if those were the only packages |
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relying on hal it might have gone away. |
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> I've always used and /etc/X11/xorg.conf file for starting X. |
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> What I'm wondering from seeing this kind of topic frequently here is |
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> if I'm running in some deprecated mode? |
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> If my setup using no hal, and xorg.conf is going to become outdated |
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> and stop working anytime soon? |
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The answer is a solid "who the heck knows". |
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If it works for you now, don't mess with it. Wait for the |
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Xorg/hal/devkit/whatever situation to settle down before you go making |
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any drastic changes. |
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Some people, like myself, are running X with hal and no .conf file and |
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it works like a champ. I get better hardware detection with hal, |
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especially on my laptop, than I ever got manually. |
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Other people have had problems with hal and Xorg not detecting their |
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hardware at all. What you are "frequently" seeing is those people |
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reminding everyone, every time the topic come up, that you don't *need* |
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to use the new hal-ified way if it doesn't work for you. |
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All of this is probably moot because hal itself is going away and being |
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replaced by devicekit, but not yet because devicekit isn't quite ready. |
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What the configuration situation will be under devicekit I have no |
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idea, though I would hope having no configuration file would still be a |
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goal for the devkit team. |
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--Mike |