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 1O3saB-0007Oj-9R for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:08:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 74AAFE0AE7 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:08:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com (mail-gy0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEACFE086C for ; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:52:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyg8 with SMTP id 8so2360140gyg.40 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 07:52:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:received:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=6R6Mmc9GojLEjI/3tIB0zQ0wwv/rP0byV2LZIfGbsww=; b=VDtKy4Xft/Nma8SMxpTTOgs/3LYZYxrUEhXxrivLMIvKy2Msb3Dt0PE4NP1ObtdMt5 dEGU0YHIVIxWNC+llx8/0SezydKfzCn3lQymL8HlRxSc3yKfiGS+MGdiZAVSgF7FzUI8 /Wnm4Ny7r11W8RzkrIGld2hydTYpSBqltti+M= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=T2fql2UFF+mBX5tZvatF3zUJieMB0VDd/n8zaLZcA2ALXyVQOEUrDOjWJL/PAD6GuZ qFmIfwUgrVPUlju31SGRVlCIbogUSJklfYj/NqJbdUVfC5xAS0NHXuWonqaDt9nMCXQG fxdsunTbVZ0Spf9aBfRde74gyoum0k5W0rSaI= 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 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.151.98.3 with HTTP; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 07:52:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <877ho4uwed.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87k4s48o6d.fsf@newsguy.com> <201004182247.29164.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <877ho4uwed.fsf@newsguy.com> Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:52:40 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 365f74ec72335537 Received: by 10.150.127.24 with SMTP id z24mr6150510ybc.204.1271688760329; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 07:52:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I want my Ctrl+Alt+Backspace back From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 0895b77a-4610-410c-aa7b-34dd282177b3 X-Archives-Hash: 5fbb89b7d8674f3747f0d9895a390214 On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras writes: > >>> Read more details here: >>> >>> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.6-upgrade-guide.xml >> >> HAL is deprecated and will not be supported in X anymore, so it's not >> the "new" way ;) > > Well, its just not the NEWEST way. But what is the newest (post hal) > way? And will the xorg.conf technique work anyway? See http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.8-upgrade-guide.xml Basically, it's kind of a user-friendly combination of the two. Your config files are modular (or monolithic if you prefer) and in the old xorg.conf style (can be read and edited more easily by humans), but can use udev to describe any hardware device with precision. So it should be able to have the power of HAL with the ease/familiarity of the old config files.