[arch-general] HAL depreciation

[Nilesh Govindarajan]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Javier Vasquez <j.e.vasquez.v at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>


Let it be. I'm happy with what I have now. WIll migrate to udev once
KDE and Xorg officially stop using HAL.

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Nilesh Govindarajan
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www.itech7.com