On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 19:45 +0100, Arvid Picciani wrote: > nope. The hal crap has been added to X a while ago as "optional" > (meaning X would just freeze without it, but at least pretend to > start) > , but the forced dependency is new (as in, it doesnt start when > compiled > with hal, but no hal present). > The difference is that previously you could get get away with a hack > in > xorg.conf without having to rebuild xorg without --enable-config-hal Looks like nobody ever reads documentation. Read the freaking wiki link posted when upgrading/installing xorg-server and you'll know you can disable hal interaction from xorg.conf with one single option. Is it that hard?