Helmut Jarausch <jarausch <at> igpm.rwth-aachen.de> writes:
> having had some problems with recent xorg version my question is > what are the benefits (if any) of building packages with the 'hal' > use flag (i.e. adding 'hal' to US='...' in /etc/make.conf) This link is short and reasonable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_(software) Hardware Abstraction Layer is a buzz term that means many different things to many different hardware designers who need software to make their designs complete. hth, James