[arch-general] HAL depreciation

[jwbirdsong]

On 03/16/2010 10:54 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
> 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 ?
in addition to what Ty posted there is also 
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Get_All_Mouse_Buttons_Working  that 
has some pointers