[arch-general] HAL depreciation

[Javier Vasquez]

On 3/17/10, James Rayner <james at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:16 +0530, "Nilesh Govindarajan"
> <lists at itech7.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> That's because you haven't configured Xorg. Without HAL, you need to
> create entries in your Xorg.conf regarding mouse/keyboard. This is
> documented all over the internet, and a new config using Xorg -configure
> will probably also contain the appropriate lines.
>

Besides having entries for mouse and keyboard, now it's required to
include a server flags section:

Section "ServerFlags"
        Option  "AutoAddDevices"        "False"
        Option  "AllowEmptyInput"       "False"
EndSection

1st flag is to prevent Xorg to automatically load devices through HAL,
and 2nd is to prevent Xorg to start with no devices (so it makes sure
you have the entries configuring them).

This was documented somewhere I don't remember where though...

-- 
Javier.