On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 20:43 -0400, linux fan wrote: > On 4/12/10, Simon Geard <[email protected]> wrote: > > You don't. G-V-M has been obsolete for a few years, even before the > > deprecation of HAL > > HAL is deprecated? > Honorable bewildered self seeks enlightenment if available.
See my post on this thread of a couple of days ago, the one Andrew was asking me about But the short version is that HAL was the first try (in 2004 or so) at improving hardware management stuff - it was a big improvement, but the design proved inadequate over time. So the original developers started writing a replacement called DeviceKit (mid 2008), most of which eventually got merged into udev (early 2009). So over the last year or so, the major distros and upstream projects using HAL have been working on migrating away from it. That's pretty much complete now - xorg-server 1.8 was the last piece I was waiting for in order to drop HAL from my system entirely... See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_%28software%29 and: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeviceKit Simon.
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