On Sunday 01 November 2009 00:25:55 Mike Edenfield wrote: > On 10/31/2009 4:59 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Even it's author knows this (but apparently many distros do not) which is > > why he deprecated hal and started over with devicekit. > > Speaking of which... > > Has the switchover to devicekit officially started and I > missed it? And if so, is there some migration guide of some > sort I can peruse for assistance? > > I just upgraded Xorg and Gnome yesterday and my previously > more-or-less-working with hal system went belly up. It no > longer recognizes my synaptics touchpad, and in fact refused > to start X until I re-merged the kdb/mouse drivers, and > gnome-power-manager is totally useless. > > For the record, I'm all about moving to devicekit from hal > if that's where the dev(s) are moving, but I'd rather do so > while continuing to use my laptop :)
devicekit was only recently added to portage, and last time I looked the hardware it supported was nowhere near hal yet. So the answer to your question is unfortunately no -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
