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 1OTHFj-0001sK-3C for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:32:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 06C7CE0A60; Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:31:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7D07E0A60 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:31:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6F75103346; Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:31:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:31:38 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type; s=smtpout; bh=kX8zpcNLqQL8Y0czXvToVbmzEIY=; b=bG4Om86a6ZzG3ElDBfIlFrAoQdsaAMOHbvVdZ3AZZL7Thueo8wCL7Rd9sGVUKn+Cm+IXnHpXzumGRhS7iW7PbcuNxtSvNosaczjRX1EHNwYHdDgUjeLgPuklWyKTY+jCYNtYS7MKzeHTxKn/RgkU/K6XBJf3ZIT3oGnjUSH0whw= X-Sasl-enc: RYOoaiDTU29I/RkU+xYXd7470yqwGG50T+oHdE3hZWIN 1277742697 Received: from [192.168.5.10] (lvps83-169-5-6.dedicated.hosteurope.de [83.169.5.6]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8600F4A81D for ; Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:31:36 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4C28CE59.2050302@f_philipp.fastmail.net> Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:31:21 +0200 From: Florian Philipp User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100525 Lightning/1.0b2pre 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 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] XServer hal useflag References: <4C2645D4.4050908@f_philipp.fastmail.net> <1277577172.92452.5.camel@paska> In-Reply-To: <1277577172.92452.5.camel@paska> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig3FC1B7C8387F6B944E0337C9" X-Archives-Salt: 6ca9ddab-3a5c-4208-a8d7-95d72c426a3c X-Archives-Hash: 416d8ad872ae10f1a8f855ef051be5af This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig3FC1B7C8387F6B944E0337C9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Am 26.06.2010 20:32, schrieb Albert Hopkins: > On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 20:24 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: [..] >> I'm a bit confused about the meaning of the hal useflag on the >> x11-base/xorg-server ebuilds nowadays. When I deactivate it, hot-plugi= n >> a mouse does not work and special keys on the keyboard are not detecte= d. >> When I enable it, everything works but several driver packages (evdev >> and mouse, probably others) want me to deactivate it. >> [...] > So many softwares that used hal before are or have > migrated to something else, such as udev. Xorg has also chosen to do > this, and so the newer Xorg servers can use udev instead of hal. There= > is a udev flag for xorg-server. You can/should use this instead of hal= =2E [...] Thanks for the update! Unfortunately, the first X-Server version with a udev useflag hasn't been stabilized on AMD64, yet. I keyworded it and it worked ... somewhat. I now have other problems but since these are unrelated to hal vs. udev, I open another thread for it. Thanks, Florian Philipp --------------enig3FC1B7C8387F6B944E0337C9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkwozmIACgkQqs4uOUlOuU/3MQCZAe1RGej9XREqaktqYNs8U+Bk L+IAnjD09qslo0k04COuJFYLqLEm7Q7y =uEk9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig3FC1B7C8387F6B944E0337C9--