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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 17:42:11
Message-Id: 4A0DA969.7030706@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 by Paul Hartman
1 Paul Hartman wrote:
2 > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >
4 >> Since the "new" xorg-server was a complete flop here, when will this
5 >> devicekit option be coming? Please tell me it will be easier that hal is.
6 >>
7 >
8 > It (xorg+hal/fdi config) has worked fine for me since day 1 (and
9 > continues to work), using a fully ~amd64 system. So not a complete
10 > flop. And xorg devs have been using it like that for something like 5
11 > years. I think the migration from one style of config to another was
12 > more the cause of many people's problems generally. I don't know
13 > anything about devicekit but I would bet the config & operation would
14 > be close to that of hal/fdi than the old xorg.conf style.
15 >
16 >
17 >
18
19 I never said it was a flop for anyone else, just that it was a flop
20 here. I couldn't get a GUI working until I went back to the old
21 xorg-server and even recompiled a few other things. I masked that puppy
22 and it will be masked for a while here.
23
24 Dale
25
26 :-) :-)