Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Wednesday 10 February 2010 03:29:50 Dale wrote:
> Well, actually, if hal would have worked I wouldn't have cared if it
> uses xorg.conf at all.  That was the point of using hal.  Thing is, I
> followed the howto and it didn't work.  The fact that the config files
> are in xml only became a problem after hal locked me out of my GUI and
> required a hard shutdown.
>

hal is a classic "Second System Effect" case

But I thought we thrashed this to death a while ago and all agreed to never 
speak of this abomination again, while we await the Third System Effect aka 
DeviceKit?

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