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

[甘露(Gan Lu)]

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Ionuț Bîru <biru.ionut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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...
Not far away, not far away, I just got gnome-vfs and podsleuth
depending on it, which is scheduled to be removed by GNOME3 and
banshee.  New xorg update brings me a apparently smoother feeling when
I scroll pages in Firefox, which is a big advantage for me, thanks for
devs.
>>>
>>> Allan
>>>
>> Most notabaly KDE and Thunar
>
> and in gnome with gnome-power-manager to have some special keys support

>
> --
> Ionuț
>