On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 22:12 -0600, Wes Morgan wrote: > On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Robert Noland wrote: > > > On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 21:54 -0500, Alex Goncharov wrote: > > > Xorg is moving more in that direction... Using hal for device > > configuration is now the default. However, you can still statically > > configure devices. See xorg.conf(5), AllowEmptyInput, AutoAddDevices, > > AutoEnableDevices. > > > > So, yes you can still configure it without HAL support, it just isn't > > the preferred method. > > > > I've been avoiding HAL like the plague as well. It frobs my ath wireless > card when it tries to probe it.
This issue should be resolved in -CURRENT. It was actually a kernel issue that I whined about until it got fixed. running dumpcis on a running card produced the same issue. > Disabling it works, but KDE runs like > garbage with hal running, and I get zombie processes of > "hal-storage-cleanup--all-mountpoints" when I try to shut it down... In > short, I avoid it wherever possible! I don't run kde, so no help there.. robert.
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