On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Ty John <ty-ml@eye-of-odin.com> wrote:
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:08:42 -0500 "Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr." <jeffrey.parke@gmail.com> wrote:
the usb mice don't work without hal, or do they now. They didn't used to
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:06 PM, Damjan Georgievski <gdamjan@gmail.com>wrote:
Does anyone know how much of HAL is needed in ArchLinux these days? I'm asking because I've learned that both udev and HAL configure the keymap of input devices nowdays and I wonder what other former HAL features are already implemented in udev.
-- damjan
USB mice have worked without hal for a long time. It's just hotplugging that won't work.
Well, I recently copied /etc/group.pacnew to /etc/group which didn't have the hal and gdm groups. HAL didn't start, and when I started KDE (xinit startkde) or GDM or KDM, neither keyboard nor mouse worked. After adding hal group, it worked fine, since HAL started succesfully. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site & Server Administrator www.itech7.com