Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] Xorg 1.8 moves to extra
On 06/21/2010 06:34 AM, jwbirdsong wrote: On 06/20/2010 09:13 PM, Allan McRae wrote: On 21/06/10 13:04, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: On 06/21/2010 02:31 AM, Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Andreas Radke wrote: Andreas Radke wrote: This release works with udev for input hotplugging and supports /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/*.conf as a replacement for the hal .fdi files. After upgrading to this release, configuration for input devices in hal is ignored. Documentation about this change can be found on: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#xorg.conf.d_.28Xorg_1.8.29 Nvidia-173xx and -96xx drivers currently don't support the new Xorg release. We recommend using the xf86-video-nouveau driver package for now. URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/502/ ___ arch-announce mailing list arch-annou...@archlinux.org http://mailman.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-announce WOW nice. So HAL is not needed anymore ? Not for X. You may still need it for other things... Allan Most notabaly KDE and Thunar and in gnome with gnome-power-manager to have some special keys support -- Ionuț
Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] Xorg 1.8 moves to extra
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Ionuț Bîru biru.io...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/21/2010 06:34 AM, jwbirdsong wrote: On 06/20/2010 09:13 PM, Allan McRae wrote: On 21/06/10 13:04, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: On 06/21/2010 02:31 AM, Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Andreas Radke wrote: Andreas Radke wrote: This release works with udev for input hotplugging and supports /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/*.conf as a replacement for the hal .fdi files. After upgrading to this release, configuration for input devices in hal is ignored. Documentation about this change can be found on: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#xorg.conf.d_.28Xorg_1.8.29 Nvidia-173xx and -96xx drivers currently don't support the new Xorg release. We recommend using the xf86-video-nouveau driver package for now. URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/502/ ___ arch-announce mailing list arch-annou...@archlinux.org http://mailman.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-announce WOW nice. So HAL is not needed anymore ? Not for X. You may still need it for other things... Not far away, not far away, I just got gnome-vfs and podsleuth depending on it, which is scheduled to be removed by GNOME3 and banshee. New xorg update brings me a apparently smoother feeling when I scroll pages in Firefox, which is a big advantage for me, thanks for devs. Allan Most notabaly KDE and Thunar and in gnome with gnome-power-manager to have some special keys support -- Ionuț
Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] Xorg 1.8 moves to extra
On 06/21/2010 07:05 PM, 甘露(Gan Lu) wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Ionuț Bîrubiru.io...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/21/2010 06:34 AM, jwbirdsong wrote: On 06/20/2010 09:13 PM, Allan McRae wrote: On 21/06/10 13:04, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: On 06/21/2010 02:31 AM, Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Andreas Radke wrote: Andreas Radke wrote: This release works with udev for input hotplugging and supports /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/*.conf as a replacement for the hal .fdi files. After upgrading to this release, configuration for input devices in hal is ignored. Documentation about this change can be found on: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#xorg.conf.d_.28Xorg_1.8.29 Nvidia-173xx and -96xx drivers currently don't support the new Xorg release. We recommend using the xf86-video-nouveau driver package for now. URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/502/ ___ arch-announce mailing list arch-annou...@archlinux.org http://mailman.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-announce WOW nice. So HAL is not needed anymore ? Not for X. You may still need it for other things... Not far away, not far away, I just got gnome-vfs and podsleuth depending on it, which is scheduled to be removed by GNOME3 and banshee. New xorg update brings me a apparently smoother feeling when I scroll pages in Firefox, which is a big advantage for me, thanks for devs. Allan Most notabaly KDE and Thunar and in gnome with gnome-power-manager to have some special keys support -- Ionuț Even kdelibs requires it. -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e
Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] Xorg 1.8 moves to extra
On 06/21/2010 02:31 AM, Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Andreas Radke wrote: Andreas Radke wrote: This release works with udev for input hotplugging and supports /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/*.conf as a replacement for the hal .fdi files. After upgrading to this release, configuration for input devices in hal is ignored. Documentation about this change can be found on: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#xorg.conf.d_.28Xorg_1.8.29 Nvidia-173xx and -96xx drivers currently don't support the new Xorg release. We recommend using the xf86-video-nouveau driver package for now. URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/502/ ___ arch-announce mailing list arch-annou...@archlinux.org http://mailman.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-announce WOW nice. So HAL is not needed anymore ? -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e
Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] Xorg 1.8 moves to extra
On 21/06/10 13:04, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: On 06/21/2010 02:31 AM, Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Andreas Radke wrote: Andreas Radke wrote: This release works with udev for input hotplugging and supports /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/*.conf as a replacement for the hal .fdi files. After upgrading to this release, configuration for input devices in hal is ignored. Documentation about this change can be found on: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#xorg.conf.d_.28Xorg_1.8.29 Nvidia-173xx and -96xx drivers currently don't support the new Xorg release. We recommend using the xf86-video-nouveau driver package for now. URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/502/ ___ arch-announce mailing list arch-annou...@archlinux.org http://mailman.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-announce WOW nice. So HAL is not needed anymore ? Not for X. You may still need it for other things... Allan
Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] Xorg 1.8 moves to extra
On 06/21/2010 08:43 AM, Allan McRae wrote: On 21/06/10 13:04, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: On 06/21/2010 02:31 AM, Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Andreas Radke wrote: Andreas Radke wrote: This release works with udev for input hotplugging and supports /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/*.conf as a replacement for the hal .fdi files. After upgrading to this release, configuration for input devices in hal is ignored. Documentation about this change can be found on: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#xorg.conf.d_.28Xorg_1.8.29 Nvidia-173xx and -96xx drivers currently don't support the new Xorg release. We recommend using the xf86-video-nouveau driver package for now. URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/502/ ___ arch-announce mailing list arch-annou...@archlinux.org http://mailman.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-announce WOW nice. So HAL is not needed anymore ? Not for X. You may still need it for other things... Allan Other things in the sense GNOME, KDE ? -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e
Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] Xorg 1.8 moves to extra
On 06/20/2010 09:13 PM, Allan McRae wrote: On 21/06/10 13:04, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: On 06/21/2010 02:31 AM, Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Andreas Radke wrote: Andreas Radke wrote: This release works with udev for input hotplugging and supports /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/*.conf as a replacement for the hal .fdi files. After upgrading to this release, configuration for input devices in hal is ignored. Documentation about this change can be found on: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#xorg.conf.d_.28Xorg_1.8.29 Nvidia-173xx and -96xx drivers currently don't support the new Xorg release. We recommend using the xf86-video-nouveau driver package for now. URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/502/ ___ arch-announce mailing list arch-annou...@archlinux.org http://mailman.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-announce WOW nice. So HAL is not needed anymore ? Not for X. You may still need it for other things... Allan Most notabaly KDE and Thunar
