Xorg requires hal daemon

Tomasz Pala gotar at polanet.pl
Sun Feb 22 01:24:25 CET 2009


On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 20:56:06 +0100, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:

>> So imo we should add Suggests or %banner. It is a bit confusing that xorg
>> does not work out of the box. 

I'd prefer S.

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

One needs to install hal or append Option "UseEvents" "False" to
xorg.conf?

>> 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.

And it has DRI2 I hope...

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Tomasz Pala <gotar at pld-linux.org>


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