[arch-general] HAL depreciation

Nilesh Govindarajan lists at itech7.com
Wed Mar 17 05:54:54 CET 2010


On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Ty John <ty-ml at eye-of-odin.com> wrote:
> 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?
>

What to put ?

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