[arch-general] [arch-announce] Xorg 1.8 moves to extra

[Allan McRae]

On 21/06/10 13:04, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
> On 06/21/2010 02:31 AM, Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Andreas Radke
> wrote:
>> Andreas Radke wrote:
>>
>> This release works with udev for input hotplugging and supports
>> /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/*.conf as a replacement for the hal .fdi files.
>> After
>> upgrading to this release, configuration for input devices in hal is
>> ignored.
>> Documentation about this change can be found on:
>> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#xorg.conf.d_.28Xorg_1.8.29
>> Nvidia-173xx
>> and -96xx drivers currently don't support the new Xorg release. We
>> recommend
>> using the xf86-video-nouveau driver package for now.
>>
>> URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/502/
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>
> WOW nice. So HAL is not needed anymore ?
>

Not for X.  You may still need it for other things...

Allan