Am 26.06.2010 20:32, schrieb Albert Hopkins: > Originally Xorg required you to pretty much specify all your devices and > configuration in your xorg.conf file. Then the option came to use hal > to help with identifying, hot-plugging, and auto-configuring devices. > Well in general hal has fallen out of favor for reasons beyond the scope > of this discussion. So many softwares that used hal before are or have > migrated to something else, such as udev. Xorg has also chosen to do > this, and so the newer Xorg servers can use udev instead of hal. There > is a udev flag for xorg-server. You can/should use this instead of hal. > Using neither hal nor udev gives you the "legacy" mode where everything > is (must be) configured via configuration file.
Is it time already to set "-hal" in make.conf and get rid of hal? I run xorg-server without hal for quite a while now, but there are other packages as well using that flag. Hints? I could simply try, yes ;-) S
