On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de> writes: > >>> Read more details here: >>> >>> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.6-upgrade-guide.xml >> >> HAL is deprecated and will not be supported in X anymore, so it's not >> the "new" way ;) > > Well, its just not the NEWEST way. But what is the newest (post hal) > way? And will the xorg.conf technique work anyway?
See http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.8-upgrade-guide.xml Basically, it's kind of a user-friendly combination of the two. Your config files are modular (or monolithic if you prefer) and in the old xorg.conf style (can be read and edited more easily by humans), but can use udev to describe any hardware device with precision. So it should be able to have the power of HAL with the ease/familiarity of the old config files.
