Xorg requires hal daemon

[Arkadiusz Miskiewicz]

On Saturday 21 of February 2009, Paweł Zuzelski wrote:
> On Saturday 21 of February 2009 18:56:07 Tomasz Pala wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 18:51:35 +0100, Zsolt Udvari wrote:
> > > I've installed the newest xorg and it didn't run. I've googled and
> > > found that the newest xorg needs hal daemon.
> > > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg_input_hotplugging#Requirements
> > > "Besides installing a supported driver, both dbus and hal have to be
> > > running." Please correct in the spec-files!
> >
> > No, it does not require hal daemon. It's just default _configuration_.
>
> So imo we should add Suggests or %banner. It is a bit confusing that xorg
> does not work out of the box. 

What do you mean by "doesn't work" btw?

> There is no error message nor info about hal 
> daemon. Not every user or even developer knows that.

Wait for 1.6 before doing anything. It's going to be released soon and it has 
some changes in that area AFAIK.

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Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz        PLD/Linux Team
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