Am 26.06.2010 20:32, schrieb Albert Hopkins: > On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 20:24 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: [..] >> I'm a bit confused about the meaning of the hal useflag on the >> x11-base/xorg-server ebuilds nowadays. When I deactivate it, hot-plugin >> a mouse does not work and special keys on the keyboard are not detected. >> When I enable it, everything works but several driver packages (evdev >> and mouse, probably others) want me to deactivate it. >> [...] > 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. [...]
Thanks for the update! Unfortunately, the first X-Server version with a udev useflag hasn't been stabilized on AMD64, yet. I keyworded it and it worked ... somewhat. I now have other problems but since these are unrelated to hal vs. udev, I open another thread for it. Thanks, Florian Philipp
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