On 06/26/2010 09:54 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
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 ;-)
Depends on the individual packages. xorg-server can do without hal.
For other packages you need to look at their docs and see why they need hal.
