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

[Nilesh Govindarajan]

On 06/21/2010 07:05 PM, 甘露(Gan Lu) wrote:
> 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
>>

Even kdelibs requires it.

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