On Tuesday 14 April 2009 01:08:23 gibbo...@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm trying to follow this philosophy which appears more difficult than I
> primary though.
> 1) I don't want hal, one more daemon running only to... spot /dev/input/*,
> from what I understand xf86-input-* does this pretty well. I won't
> unplug my mouse and so want to keep my xorg simple conf.
> 2) Anyway, I tried to make use of evdev instead of the deprecated
> mouse and kbd drivers but...
> 3) evdev without hal replaced well my mouse driver (for the moment I
> just replaced /dev/input/mice by /dev/input/event2 in the mouse section)
> 4) for the keyboard it's far less simple : if I switch to evdev, I
> cannot define the Xkb{Variant,Model,..} in xorg.conf so :
> stuck with the 'kbd' driver.
>
> I believed gentoo users would be more sceptic when it comes to make a
> new daemon mandatory ;)You need to complain to the X.org developers about that. It's them pushing hal into the X server, not gentoo. Do keep in mind that like slackware, gentoo devs like to stick with upstream as much as possible. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
