On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 06:37:48PM +0100, eatdirt wrote: > 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, especially since HAL is not available on all the platforms that X supports. You can still configure devices statically via Xorg.conf. > 2) I am not competent to understand the need of HAL under xorg. But I am > experienced enough to understand that doing so will increase the > probability of X failure by, at least, the one of HAL failure. Why > taking such a risk? Because it allows extra functionality. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
