Apparently, though unproven, at 12:46 on Thursday 28 October 2010, Dale did opine thusly:
> Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Thursday 28 October 2010 04:50:18 Dale wrote: > >> I think KDE is moving away from hal to tho. I read somewhere the > >> switch is coming. I think it is switching to policykit at some > >> point. I notice it is already in the USE flags for kdelibs here, > >> disabled here at the moment tho. That would be if it doesn't change > >> again. > > > > On this ~amd64 box: > > > > $ emerge -pv xorg-server > > [...] > > [ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.9.1 USE="ipv6 nptl udev xorg - > > dmx -doc -kdrive -minimal > > > > No mention of hal there. > > They are probably already moved away from hal. Everybody knows it is > going and that is a bleeding edge version of xorg too. I'm still on 1.7.*. > > Which brings me to my next question. How is xorg 1.9 working for ya? > Any gotchas? May try it here. xorg-server 1.8 and 1.9 use mesa-7.8.2, and there's reports around that that version of mesa causes desktop slowdowns. mesa-7.7.1 as used by xorg- server-1.7 is reported to be fine Me, I'm undecided. I have a slow sluggish desktop, but it might be the nvidia drivers, mesa, X-server, kernel config, wrong elevator or even just the shitty IO scheduler design on desktops that the kernel devs are recently waking up to admitting to. Lots of stuff to change one at a time and see what results... -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
