Re: Hal and DragonFly

2008-11-26 Thread Bill Hacker
Robert Luciani wrote: Ubuntu may not, but many others do - either with modular Xorg OR (NetBSD) even with XF86. Not rally though. For example, if you have a new Nvidia card and Xorg thinks you're supposed to use the 'nv' driver but then nothing works because the card is too new. Or you have

Re: Hal and DragonFly

2008-11-26 Thread Robert Luciani
> Ubuntu may not, but many others do - either with modular Xorg OR (NetBSD) even > with XF86. Not rally though. For example, if you have a new Nvidia card and Xorg thinks you're supposed to use the 'nv' driver but then nothing works because the card is too new. Or you have any type of VIA Chr

Re: Hal and DragonFly

2008-11-25 Thread Bill Hacker
Robert Luciani wrote: Matthew Dillon wrote: Hey, great work! For our January release I would like to do a DVD release expanded on the SOC project (in addition to our standard CD release). Does anyone know the current status of that SOC project? I played with it when the SO

Re: Hal and DragonFly

2008-11-25 Thread Robert Luciani
Matthew Dillon wrote: > Hey, great work! > > For our January release I would like to do a DVD release expanded on > the SOC project (in addition to our standard CD release). Does anyone > know the current status of that SOC project? I played with it when > the SOC project end

Re: Hal and DragonFly

2008-11-25 Thread Matthew Dillon
Hey, great work! For our January release I would like to do a DVD release expanded on the SOC project (in addition to our standard CD release). Does anyone know the current status of that SOC project? I played with it when the SOC project ended and it looked like a good basis

Hal and DragonFly

2008-11-25 Thread Hasso Tepper
Regardless of my opinion in HAL and friends (this opinion is not very good), I see it already becoming de facto standard. More and more features in modern desktops - gnome, kde, xorg (yeah, xorg itself as well) - depend on it. Thanks to Jared D. McNeill who imported hal into pkgsrc to make it w