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On 2/10/2010 2:12 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 10 February 2010 03:29:50 Dale wrote: |
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>> Well, actually, if hal would have worked I wouldn't have cared if it |
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>> uses xorg.conf at all. That was the point of using hal. Thing is, I |
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>> followed the howto and it didn't work. The fact that the config files |
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>> are in xml only became a problem after hal locked me out of my GUI and |
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>> required a hard shutdown. |
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> hal is a classic "Second System Effect" case |
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> But I thought we thrashed this to death a while ago and all agreed to never |
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> speak of this abomination again, while we await the Third System Effect aka |
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> DeviceKit? |
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Last I heard DeviceKit was "deprecated before it even happened" and |
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they're just going to move everything into udev. |
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--Mike |