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 1O5Mxd-0005fh-ES for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:46:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D95DDE08A6; Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:46:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.informasoftware.com (mail.informasoftware.com [66.193.169.4]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93D97E08A6 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:46:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.100.74] ([192.168.100.74] RDNS failed) by mail.informasoftware.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:46:19 -0400 Message-ID: <4BD1DCEA.7070201@kutulu.org> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:46:18 -0400 From: Mike Edenfield User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.4 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 CC: Grant Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox References: <1271787310.8335.8.camel@bulislaw-laptop> <4BCEE0D1.7050605@jaftan.com.au> <4BCF588F.6090401@kutulu.org> <1272013261.27692.8.camel@bulislaw-laptop> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 Apr 2010 17:46:19.0446 (UTC) FILETIME=[E16AB560:01CAE30C] X-Archives-Salt: d6fc21c2-de9a-4294-bd87-3bd29cf812a9 X-Archives-Hash: 86422c45e9d6bc8dbc23990b129c99ec On 4/23/2010 1:37 PM, Grant wrote: >>> Can anyone confirm that as users we should be moving away from hal? >> >> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.8-upgrade-guide.xml >> http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/XorgHAL > > OK, and since xorg-server-1.7 doesn't have a udev USE flag, I should > probably stick with hal until 1.8. Please let me know if that isn't > the case. I'm on udev-149. If HAL is working for you, stick with it. If not, turn it off. Xorg 1.7 works equally well with or without HAL. The main difference is how much manually configuration you need to do. The relative stability of using/not using udev with Xorg 1.8 have yet to determined. :) --Mike