On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 08:47 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: > xorg with hal does not work well on many systems - and hal on my > laptop > (i915) was a disaster.
Well I guess YMMV. I have 3 machines using i915 drivers and all of them work flawless with hal and no xorg.conf. Even the laptop which I'm using now. I get all the resolutions that the laptop's LCD uses and plus I'm able to plug it in into an external monitor and use one or both screens. All three pointers work (touchpad, trackpoint & external mouse), GLX works, KMS works... even my i915-based HTPC that connects to my TV through HDMI works (1080p, HDMI audio out) with no xorg.conf. On the contrary, people I usually see that had to use config files with the new xorg were people who used proprietary graphics drivers. -a
