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

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On 06/21/2010 06:34 AM, jwbirdsong wrote:
> On 06/20/2010 09:13 PM, Allan McRae wrote:
>> 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
>>
> Most notabaly KDE and Thunar

and in gnome with gnome-power-manager to have some special keys support

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