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From: Graham Murray <graham@gmurray.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server upgrade
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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.