On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 8:43 PM, James G. Sack (jim) <jgs...@san.rr.com>wrote:
> MacNean Tyrrell wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Gus Wirth <gwirt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Ian Kelling wrote: > >>> MacNean Tyrrell wrote: > >>>> sigh wish I could get this to work. > >>> It was so disappointing to see gnome/kde stupidly and blindly depend on > >> the > >>> version of HAL that took over user input configuration as soon as it > came > >> out > >>> when it had tons of bugs with user input, and is still buggy and > >> generally a bad > >>> idea. Things like that make me unhopeful for the future of linux for > end > >> users > >>> when this what all the major distros are putting out as defaults. > >>> > >>> My advice would be to ditch HAL and your desktop environment. For a > quick > >> fix, > >>> you can just do it just when you need the game to run. Just install a > >>> lightweight desktop / window manager that does not depend on HAL, there > >> are lots > >>> out there. > >>> > >>> - Ian Kelling > >>> > >> Gnome, KDE, or any other desktop environment have no choice in the > >> matter. The input device is decided by the version of X, not the > >> applications. It is not possible to ditch HAL because X relies on HAL > >> for the device drivers since it no longer has its own. > >> > >> One solution is to use an older version of X like what comes with Ubuntu > >> 8.04 LTS or CentOS 5.x (Red Hat Enterprise Linux). > >> > >> It may be possible to disable the use of HAL and have revert to a X > >> provided device driver. I'm doing some research on that but haven't > >> figured it out yet. > >> > > Yea i thought about going to 8.04 but I know that HAL seems to be the > future > > of xorg, and it's wierd when i run lshal it says the option is there but > > it's not working. What I tried to google was hal mailing list and > couldn't > > come up with the mailing list of the dev's who maintain this. Maybe it's > > just the xorg mailing list i should try. > > > > This page[*] lists a couple of maillists and an IRC channel: > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/hal > > Thanks so much. Gonna send an email once i get authorization. > > [*]found via freshmeat > > Regards, > ..jim > > -- > KPLUG-Newbie@kernel-panic.org > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie > -- Sincerely, MacNean C. Tyrrell -- KPLUG-Newbie@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
