MacNean Tyrrell wrote: > 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. >
This page[*] lists a couple of maillists and an IRC channel: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/hal [*]found via freshmeat Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
