On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 16:49:54 +0100, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org> writes: > > > I'd really prefer not to do that. Configuring stuff in hal or udev is > > just a stopgap until X grows a way to handle hotplugged devices in > > xorg.conf (which will happen with xserver 1.8), so I think we shouldn't > > recommend/document this as the way to go. Plus we have tools and > > protocol for runtime configuration anyway. > > OK. I agree that documenting this workaround should be avoided if it is > going to be temporary. It would just add to the confusion. I didn't > realize that using udev for storing config was just a stopgap. That > fact should probably go into the README. > Yup.
> > (See > > http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-configuration-world-order.html for > > a description of the way things are going) > > Looks good! I've always fealt that this kind of configuration belonged > to the X server and had little to do with hal/udev. Adding the > necessary glue to allow a mix of auto-device discovery and xorg.conf > snippets sounds just like it was taken from my wishlist :-) > Hehe. It's taken a while to get there, and I don't know if we can get that ready for squeeze, but that's definitely an improvement over storing X configuration in hal or udev. Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
