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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)?
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On 2010-11-14, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:

> Finally, if xorg-server-1.8 is around the corner to be stabilised I
> suggest that you unmask it and use the xorg.conf file that we all
> know and love.  :-)

Using xorg.conf with 1.7 is simple enough (it's what I do on all my
other machines).  That's why I don't understand why the Gentoo
developers decided to use HAL by default when it seems to be widely
acknowledged to be such a disaster.

-- 
Grant Edwards               grant.b.edwards        Yow! Half a mind is a
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