On 4/13/2009 12:55 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Paul Hartman wrote:
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com>
wrote:
There's a lot of us voting ++++++++++++1 today I think.
How do things like this go stable when they aren't stable, tested and
not causing problems. (rhetorical...)
I must be lucky because I've been using it since it hit ~amd64 and
using the HAL/fdi way and it works fine for me. :)
Same here. All is working perfectly (or almost perfectly; see crappy ATI
Catalyst drivers) for months. Linux is getting better and the X.Org
updates are playing a major part.
I've never had any problems with HAL or the new X that I didn't cause
myself. (e.g. enabling modesetting in the kernel by accident, blindly
copying FDI files from the intarwebs without noticing that the hal
package already included then, completely failing to read the
update-your-drivers warning, etc). In other words, exactly the same
thing that happened to old-X when you didn't pay attention to what you
are doing, happens to new-X when you don't pay attention to what you are
doing.
On the other hand, for the first time since I started putting Linux on
my laptops, I have (with zero effort on my part) a working Synaptics
touchpad with actual Synaptics features AND X recognizes my hot-plugged
USB mouse.
HAL++.
--Mike
