From: Mike Edenfield <kutulu@kutulu.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server upgrade
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:05:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BCF0635.6040909@kutulu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8739ypbbvj.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk>
On 4/21/2010 1:41 AM, Graham Murray wrote:
> walt <w41ter@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> That was true in the past, but no longer. The recent release of xorg 1.8
>> specifically says that hal will not be supported in any future xorg versions,
>> so we should all start looking beyond hal. Don't spend a lot of effort now
>> learning about hal because it's on the way out. (Not many people mourning
>> it's impending demise, apparently.)
>
> And if you use udev then you need an (at least minimal) xorg.conf.
>
With the new modular xorg.conf.d setup, you really don't.
I have no xorg.conf and the only thing I'm missing is the mouse wheel
emulation on my touchpad. The xorg-server package includes
configuration segments that handle the basic input devices for you, and
the server itself is pretty good as figuring out your output devices.
--Mike
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-21 14:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-20 23:05 [gentoo-user] xorg-server upgrade john
2010-04-20 23:33 ` Mark Knecht
2010-04-21 0:05 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-04-21 3:47 ` dan blum
2010-04-21 9:52 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-04-21 10:03 ` Dale
2010-04-21 10:28 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-04-21 0:58 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2010-04-21 5:41 ` Graham Murray
2010-04-21 14:05 ` Mike Edenfield [this message]
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