Xorg support to import options for non-Input sections?
Alan Coopersmith
Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM
Tue May 12 14:41:48 PDT 2009
Colin Guthrie wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Kevin Stange at 12/05/09 18:23 did gyre and gimble:
>> So you're saying this HAL method is widely (or narrowly, but by the
>> right people) disliked? Using Gentoo it seems to be encouraged, and
>> I've seen indications other distros (like Ubuntu) have picked up the
>> technique as well.
>
> HAL will eventually be phased out in favour of getting more direct
> information from udev. I'm not sure how that will impact the Xorg side
> of things but i'd imagine the end solution will be in some way related
> to udev. (this is just a guess tho)
And for non-Linux systems? HAL is OS-agnostic, udev seems very Linux
specific.
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