On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Brian Waters <brianmwat...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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!
http://www.x.org/wiki/XorgHAL Xorg 1.8 and newer should have udev-instead-of-HAL available.
