From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N2Zui-00033y-1P for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:27:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DDB21E0AE4; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:27:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f191.google.com (mail-yw0-f191.google.com [209.85.211.191]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2742E0AE4 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:27:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh29 with SMTP id 29so10556464ywh.32 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:27:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=HjbuIU4WZVsufyWQpyO9z7dmXVlteFMdGR+6ZWzVbIw=; b=LJz6cr3axR4iQGHZ1OxUuewBsUiB7ffYuJ5asGDbfEIoeKoZsD/2XBtqPDvQE4sXmL dgN5oz92f/UHK+Lx+9uCuNi97zomP3GUJPOWuLcC/UWj/9yAyjl+HQ+ytPvMkxNGcGGH nSv3TZKyH7MQMFtJ/W+R1T/pHZ3uOL3yaYGnI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=EMxR0SQPJU4Psm8RY+R6kz+gUz5FtkXmVRKNtOSwymn8TE3e549yvPR9rPWL3fo1OV bMYnxEIVs5I+axDf/vE6O0y8EZAmu+Xoc7z02Qi05x7JG6Zwz1ou66HaNScfJdfpeN0N 5ezx1zxurGmRSmcA2CfzpWhv5UF9LHUTkzIgs= Received: by 10.150.117.25 with SMTP id p25mr16059902ybc.139.1256603269544; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:27:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-0-95-111.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.95.111]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 5sm1252618ywd.53.2009.10.26.17.27.47 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:27:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4AE63E82.6030901@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:27:46 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20091007 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Ctrl+Alt+bksp in Xorg References: <200910262245.19071.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <200910270107.37306.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <4AE62FB0.407@gmail.com> <200910270150.24016.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <4AE63C10.5080907@darkmetatron.de> In-Reply-To: <4AE63C10.5080907@darkmetatron.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 86f6d6c9-788c-4dcc-b152-86737f52ecb6 X-Archives-Hash: 128125e3f7556af52c92355f7f808f1f Sebastian Be=DFler wrote: > Am 27.10.2009 00:50, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > > =20 >> I think it's about time we let this hal thing drop though >> =20 > > Even hal developers came to this reasons and droped it ;-) > > So WHY change everything to hal now if hal will be replaced in near > future anyway? > > I changed keyboard and mouse layout back from hal and evdev a few weeks > ago because hal crashes for me all the time and there was more then one > time when I was sitting here and starring at the graphic login screen > unable to do anything because with hal died at bootup there was no > keyboard and mouse to use. > > I really, really hate hal so much.. > > Greetings > > Sebastian > > > =20 I'm just grateful for the geek that put the SysRq key sequence in the kernel. At least you can get back to a working console and fix the stupid thing. I two disabled hal weeks ago. I'm hopeful the next one will be a lot easier and better, not just for me but for everyone else too.=20 Dale :-) :-)