2008/11/29 Colin Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > eatdirt wrote: >> Hi all, >> sorry about the naive questions, I am a mandriva cooker tester/user, and >> I have just discovered recently that soon, I'll have to start HAL to get >> working device under X. So I have a few comments/questions: >> >> 1) Today, if you are not under the gas factory desktops, gnome/kde, you >> don't need HAL. I never used/needed HAL. Will xorg still allow users to >> not use HAL? > > Yes. Some platforms that Xorg is on do not support hal. But that said, > there are lots of things in Gnome/KDE that just don't work without HAL, > so more and more you will need it for correct operation. Is there any > reason you have a problem using hal?
Amusingly, GNOME is already seeing push to move *away* from HAL: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2008-November/msg00247.html -- Kalle Vahlman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by http://movial.fi Interesting stuff at http://sandbox.movial.com See also http://syslog.movial.fi _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
