[arch-general] HAL depreciation

[Ty John (sand_man)]

On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:08:22 +0530
Nilesh Govindarajan <lists at itech7.com> wrote:

> > USB mice have worked without hal for a long time. It's just
> > hotplugging that won't work.
> >
> 
> Well, I recently copied /etc/group.pacnew to /etc/group which didn't
> have the hal and gdm groups.
> HAL didn't start, and when I started KDE (xinit startkde) or GDM or
> KDM, neither keyboard nor mouse worked. After adding hal group, it
> worked fine, since HAL started succesfully.
> 


But did you put it in your xorg.conf file?