[arch-general] HAL depreciation

Ty John (sand_man) ty-ml at eye-of-odin.com
Wed Mar 17 03:20:31 CET 2010


On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:08:42 -0500
"Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr." <jeffrey.parke at 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 at 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.


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