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 1Pkvcd-0007tW-7w for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 03 Feb 2011 09:37:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7DEDEE0AE7; Thu, 3 Feb 2011 09:35:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp1.tech.numericable.fr (smtp1.tech.numericable.fr [82.216.111.37]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43DA1E0AE7 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2011 09:35:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.10] (abo-240-18-68.rns.modulonet.fr [85.68.18.240]) by smtp1.tech.numericable.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4A12E0819 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2011 10:35:17 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4D4A76D4.4030002@numericable.fr> Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 10:35:16 +0100 From: Jacques Montier User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20110114 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.7 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] Avoiding HAL References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 5973d4fea94c5ac57aa1eb5f2df33272 Le 02/02/2011 23:59, Brian Waters a =C3=A9crit : > Hi there. I recently took a few months off from Gentoo to try Ubuntu > (I heard it "just works", and that is a Good Thing) only to find that > I'd much rather be back on Gentoo again. (The fact that Ubuntu ships > with PulseAudio means that sound it basically broken out of the box, > and I'm excited for Xfce 4.8.) > > It's been a few months since I've been around, and I'd like to know if > HAL has been fully deprecated yet. I'd like to avoid using it if at > all possible, since that seems to be the way of the future. So I'm > wondering what versions of udev and X server (and any other packages, > dbus maybe?) I need to unmask in order to get rid of the HAL > dependency. > > Thanks a lot! > > - BW > Hi I just installed stable Gentoo on a new PC without any hal: profile /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop/ make.conf with -hal USE xorg-server 1.9.2 nvidia-drivers 260.19.29 udev 151-r4 dbus 1.4.1 xfce4 4.8 Everything works nice. Cheers, --=20 Jacques