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From: Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] scrapping hal
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:13:54 +0200
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Dale asks:

> They are probably already moved away from hal.  Everybody knows it is
> going and that is a bleeding edge version of xorg too.  I'm still on
> 1.7.*.

Me too.

> Which brings me to my next question.  How is xorg 1.9 working for ya?
> Any gotchas?  May try it here.

X starts, but crashes about a minute after logging into KDE4. I had 
similar experiences with 1.8.

I'm using the radeon drivers for my ATI Radeon HD 3200 card.

	Wonko