On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Ionuț Bîru <biru.ionut@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 06/21/2010 06:34 AM, jwbirdsong wrote: >> >> On 06/20/2010 09:13 PM, Allan McRae wrote: >>> >>> On 21/06/10 13:04, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: >>>> >>>> On 06/21/2010 02:31 AM, Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Andreas Radke >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Andreas Radke wrote: >>>>> >>>>> This release works with udev for input hotplugging and supports >>>>> /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/*.conf as a replacement for the hal .fdi files. >>>>> After >>>>> upgrading to this release, configuration for input devices in hal is >>>>> ignored. >>>>> Documentation about this change can be found on: >>>>> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#xorg.conf.d_.28Xorg_1.8.29 >>>>> Nvidia-173xx >>>>> and -96xx drivers currently don't support the new Xorg release. We >>>>> recommend >>>>> using the xf86-video-nouveau driver package for now. >>>>> >>>>> URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/502/ >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> arch-announce mailing list >>>>> arch-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>>>> http://mailman.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-announce >>>> >>>> WOW nice. So HAL is not needed anymore ? >>>> >>> >>> Not for X. You may still need it for other things... Not far away, not far away, I just got gnome-vfs and podsleuth depending on it, which is scheduled to be removed by GNOME3 and banshee. New xorg update brings me a apparently smoother feeling when I scroll pages in Firefox, which is a big advantage for me, thanks for devs. >>> >>> Allan >>> >> Most notabaly KDE and Thunar > > and in gnome with gnome-power-manager to have some special keys support > > -- > Ionuț >
