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 1O5Nm4-00047g-6z for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:38:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 49145E0933; Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:38:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-iw0-f175.google.com (mail-iw0-f175.google.com [209.85.223.175]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31CC7E0933 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:38:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn5 with SMTP id 5so213681iwn.9 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:38:16 -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=g+tPGCmT3nyZZn/lPhupb1vPd9ZoJMuXn9QeKtqRYyQ=; b=tlzEc+fqBC/Ts9ziZBtuaD+QHgwnWstz3r2c7qMmvUy2oW/oOofpsIh86Y9j7x/5NC upPSM9C2tjC2vC8PjqWlPQCWcylGIEVvTOl0hj03LZA1YtA/CUg6UdEPDO1WtokHRqat oVqzqYoZX+avuB84YV8NEWryRS+ZxN+TO7Byg= 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=WI8uyODb2guAhpZ40iAtQXnBW4Zxix/UKsMq/X2wuJC9SjuZG6OENix5New/I9KEq5 A99qlANZEmVC+WzJCCWd93EIkAax4OUCKck+Z37tUJbshso4d5RyFG9fCXND2vFT64ap OK6N3uHFaaZj6PjF8f+DKAtG1PeFjJjURBjoU= Received: by 10.231.166.8 with SMTP id k8mr100909iby.93.1272047895844; Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:38:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (adsl-0-94-36.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.94.36]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id cm22sm402922ibb.23.2010.04.23.11.38.14 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:38:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4BD1E914.8060006@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:38:12 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100409 Gentoo/2.0.4-r1 SeaMonkey/2.0.4 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 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> <4BD1DCEA.7070201@kutulu.org> In-Reply-To: <4BD1DCEA.7070201@kutulu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7ef82df0-a7d5-46cb-ac97-3fa6751fea58 X-Archives-Hash: 49e724a5c87b7b1aff25d387b996a370 Mike Edenfield wrote: > 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 > > > Even tho I'm not much on hal, if it works, use it. If it is not working, then switch to udev, back to having a xorg.conf file or whatever else will work for you. Sometimes it just depends on your hardware. Some systems like one software package to manage things and another system will work better with something else. You just have to find one that works and stick with it. Dale :-) :-)