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> >> Before you go to great pains to get this working, you do know that hal |
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> >> is checking out right? |
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> Yes, I knew that. Maybe I'll just live without the touchpad until HAL |
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> goes away for good. |
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> My question is why did the Gentoo maintainers decide to use HAL |
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> instead of xorg.conf? |
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The decision to use hal for the hardware configuration was an upstream |
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thing. Same thing with switching to udev[1]. Also you could use xorg.conf, |
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it just wasn't recommended if hal could work with everything out of the box. |
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[1] http://www.x.org/wiki/XorgHAL |
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