[arch-general] HAL depreciation

[Nilesh Govindarajan]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:57 AM, jwbirdsong
<jwbirdsong at jwbirdsong.homelinux.com> wrote:
> 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
>

I don't have seven mouse buttons.
The mouse and keyboard is already configured in xorg.conf using
drivers mouse and kbd.
If I stop hal, and then start Xorg, it doesn't work. I've to hard reset my box.



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