On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:25:45PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote > >> It does look like there will be some problems with Xorg and detecting >> input devices. I spent a few minuted digging around...and I have no >> leads on where Xorg ties into udev or hotplug. Heading to sleep for >> the night. This is getting interesting, though. > > One of the benefits of HAL was that X was supposed to start up just > fine without an xorg.conf. We all know how that turned out. Maybe we > will have to back to using xorg.conf. I prefer being in control of > things. On the other hand, maybe mdev can do similar detection.
Actually, I kinda missed out on the whole HAL thing. A ways back, I jumped from Gentoo back to Ubuntu*. I got sick of Ubuntu and jumped to Arch just as HAL was majorly going out of style. I know this, because all the info on keeping an Arch system conflicted as to whether or not HAL was needed. Rather annoying. I bounced back to Ubuntu, and by the time I got back to Gentoo last summer, HAL was gone. I know what the HAL in Windows does, but I don't really know anything about what the HAL in Linux did. * I was stuck home with H1N1, had to work from home, and had my Gentoo box go down without enough experience to know how to fix it. If I wasn't stuck working from home, it wouldn't have been so critical. It was, though, so I wiped and installed Ubuntu so I could get things running again. -- :wq
