On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Gus Wirth <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > Yea i thought about going to 8.04 but I know that HAL seems to be the future of xorg, and it's wierd when i run lshal it says the option is there but it's not working. What I tried to google was hal mailing list and couldn't come up with the mailing list of the dev's who maintain this. Maybe it's just the xorg mailing list i should try. > > Gus > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie > -- Sincerely, MacNean C. Tyrrell -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
