Re: [gentoo-user] scrapping hal

[Dale]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 12:46 on Thursday 28 October 2010, Dale did
> opine thusly:
>
>
>> Peter Humphrey wrote:
>>
>>> On Thursday 28 October 2010 04:50:18 Dale wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think KDE is moving away from hal to tho.  I read somewhere the
>>>> switch is coming.  I think it is switching to policykit at some
>>>> point.  I notice it is already in the USE flags for kdelibs here,
>>>> disabled here at the moment tho.  That would be if it doesn't change
>>>> again.
>>>>
>>> On this ~amd64 box:
>>>
>>> $ emerge -pv xorg-server
>>> [...]
>>> [ebuild   R   ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.9.1  USE="ipv6 nptl udev xorg -
>>> dmx -doc -kdrive -minimal
>>>
>>> No mention of hal there.
>>>
>> They are probably already moved away from hal.  Everybody knows it is
>> going and that is a bleeding edge version of xorg too.  I'm still on 1.7.*.
>>
>> Which brings me to my next question.  How is xorg 1.9 working for ya?
>> Any gotchas?  May try it here.
>>
> xorg-server 1.8 and 1.9 use mesa-7.8.2, and there's reports around that that
> version of mesa causes desktop slowdowns. mesa-7.7.1 as used by xorg-
> server-1.7 is reported to be fine
>
> Me, I'm undecided. I have a slow sluggish desktop, but it might be the nvidia
> drivers, mesa, X-server, kernel config, wrong elevator or even just the shitty
> IO scheduler design on desktops that the kernel devs are recently waking up to
> admitting to. Lots of stuff to change one at a time and see what results...
>
>

Since you are undecided, I'm decided.  I'm sticking with what I have 
now.  I just got mine to speed up again and I don't want to be trying to 
narrow down problems again.

What's the old saying, if it's working, don't fix it.  lol

Dale

:-)  :-)