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On Sunday 01 November 2009 00:25:55 Mike Edenfield wrote: |
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> On 10/31/2009 4:59 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > Even it's author knows this (but apparently many distros do not) which is |
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> > why he deprecated hal and started over with devicekit. |
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> Speaking of which... |
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> Has the switchover to devicekit officially started and I |
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> missed it? And if so, is there some migration guide of some |
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> sort I can peruse for assistance? |
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> I just upgraded Xorg and Gnome yesterday and my previously |
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> more-or-less-working with hal system went belly up. It no |
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> longer recognizes my synaptics touchpad, and in fact refused |
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> to start X until I re-merged the kdb/mouse drivers, and |
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> gnome-power-manager is totally useless. |
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> For the record, I'm all about moving to devicekit from hal |
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> if that's where the dev(s) are moving, but I'd rather do so |
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> while continuing to use my laptop :) |
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devicekit was only recently added to portage, and last time I looked the |
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hardware it supported was nowhere near hal yet. |
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So the answer to your question is unfortunately no |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |