Re: [gentoo-user] Re: XServer hal useflag

2011-02-23 Thread DK Smith
Hello Philip, May I ask you to throw me a couple of "bones" :) I am catching up on gentoo threads (after getting laid off and now have time to remove hal. lol!). I've already removed hal from make.conf and then made package.use entries based on an `equery depends hal`. On Jul 3, 2010, a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: XServer hal useflag

2010-07-03 Thread Philip Webb
100626 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 06/26/2010 09:24 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: >> I'm a bit confused about the meaning of the hal useflag >> on the x11-base/xorg-server ebuilds nowadays. > Delete everything related to input devices in xorg.conf > and make sure the "udev" USE flag is enabled for x

[gentoo-user] Re: XServer hal useflag

2010-06-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/26/2010 09:54 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: 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-confi

[gentoo-user] Re: XServer hal useflag

2010-06-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/26/2010 09:24 PM, 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 it, everything wor