Alan McKinnon wrote:
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...
Since you are undecided, I'm decided. I'm sticking with what I have
now. I just got mine to speed up again and I don't want to be trying to
narrow down problems again.
What's the old saying, if it's working, don't fix it. lol
Dale
:-) :-)
