Ian Kelling wrote: > MacNean Tyrrell wrote: >> sigh wish I could get this to work. > > It was so disappointing to see gnome/kde stupidly and blindly depend on the > version of HAL that took over user input configuration as soon as it came out > when it had tons of bugs with user input, and is still buggy and generally a > bad > idea. Things like that make me unhopeful for the future of linux for end users > when this what all the major distros are putting out as defaults. > > My advice would be to ditch HAL and your desktop environment. For a quick fix, > you can just do it just when you need the game to run. Just install a > lightweight desktop / window manager that does not depend on HAL, there are > lots > out there. > > - Ian Kelling >
Gnome, KDE, or any other desktop environment have no choice in the matter. The input device is decided by the version of X, not the applications. It is not possible to ditch HAL because X relies on HAL for the device drivers since it no longer has its own. One solution is to use an older version of X like what comes with Ubuntu 8.04 LTS or CentOS 5.x (Red Hat Enterprise Linux). It may be possible to disable the use of HAL and have revert to a X provided device driver. I'm doing some research on that but haven't figured it out yet. Gus -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
