xorg enforces hal now?

[Peter Hutterer]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 05:04:59PM +0200, Dirk wrote:
> Peter Hutterer wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 08:42:27PM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
>>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:37:42PM +0200, Dirk wrote:
>>>> after denying linux to become ever relevant to gamers by making it 
>>>> hard to disable mouse acceleration permanently (yes.. i have to use 
>>>> a cronjob for that :D)... could we at least make..
>>>>
>>>> Section "ServerFlags"
>>>>      Option      "AutoAddDevices"    "false"
>>>> EndSection
>>>>
>>>> ...a default? or is it debian's fault(!) that i people need to have 
>>>> hal installed?
>>> this is the default if hal-devel isn't installed at runtime.
>>
>> aargh. at _configure_ time, not at runtime of course
>>
>> Cheers,
>>   Peter
>>
>
> ctrl+alt+backspace still doesn't work without hal... :O

yes, that's expected though. the HAL code is merely a different path to get
devices and doesn't affect zapping one way or another. the zapping is
controlled in the xfree86 part, and requires the option DontZap "off", atm
anyway.

Cheers,
  Peter