Re: [gentoo-user] XServer hal useflag

2010-06-28 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 26.06.2010 20:32, schrieb Albert Hopkins: On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 20:24 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: [..] I'm a bit confused about the meaning of the hal useflag on the x11-base/xorg-server ebuilds nowadays. When I deactivate it, hot-plugin a mouse does not work and special keys on the

[gentoo-user] XServer hal useflag

2010-06-26 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi list! I'm a bit confused about the meaning of the hal useflag on the x11-base/xorg-server ebuilds nowadays. When I deactivate it, hot-plugin a mouse does not work and special keys on the keyboard are not detected. When I enable it, everything works but several driver packages (evdev and mouse,

Re: [gentoo-user] XServer hal useflag

2010-06-26 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 20:24 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! I'm a bit confused about the meaning of the hal useflag on the x11-base/xorg-server ebuilds nowadays. When I deactivate it, hot-plugin a mouse does not work and special keys on the keyboard are not detected. When I enable

Re: [gentoo-user] XServer hal useflag

2010-06-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 26.06.2010 20:32, schrieb Albert Hopkins: Originally Xorg required you to pretty much specify all your devices and configuration in your xorg.conf file. Then the option came to use hal to help with identifying, hot-plugging, and auto-configuring devices. Well in general hal has fallen out

Re: [gentoo-user] XServer hal useflag

2010-06-26 Thread waltdnes
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 08:54:07PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote Is it time already to set -hal in make.conf and get rid of hal? Even better, put it in /etc/portage/package.mask. Here's mine... sys-apps/dbus sys-apps/hal sys-libs/pam I could simply try, yes ;-) Try it, you'll like

Re: [gentoo-user] XServer hal useflag

2010-06-26 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 20:54 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Is it time already to set -hal in make.conf and get rid of hal? I have some packages that still need hal.. or at least to use them the way I use them they still need hal. I don't have hal as a global use flag, but have it for

Re: [gentoo-user] XServer hal useflag

2010-06-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 26.06.2010 22:38, schrieb waltd...@waltdnes.org: Even better, put it in /etc/portage/package.mask. Here's mine... sys-apps/dbus sys-apps/hal sys-libs/pam I could simply try, yes ;-) Try it, you'll like it. Why? ;-) I am not as bold to do what you suggested. Added -hal to my

Re: [gentoo-user] XServer hal useflag

2010-06-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 26.06.2010 22:56, schrieb Albert Hopkins: On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 20:54 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Is it time already to set -hal in make.conf and get rid of hal? I have some packages that still need hal.. or at least to use them the way I use them they still need hal. I don't have