hald

[Steven Newbury]

On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 09:01 -0800, Etienne Robillard wrote:
> Thanks. But i didn't use --disable-config-hal... It was set to the default (auto). For that
> reason I was hoping not to have to mess with hald to make the server running
> again. 
> 
> I guess i'll have to explicitely attempt to use the "--disable-config-hal" flag
> next time I want to try a build. 
> 
I'm pretty sure HAL is disabled by configure if udev support is
detected.  Input hotplug requires one of the other, udev is preferred.

> hal/dbus is such a mess anyway that i'm quite happy to learn its being deprecated
> by udev. :)
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Etienne
> 
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:51:46 +1000
> Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
> > HAL hasn't been required on linux since server 1.8 where we switched to
> > udev. If you disable hal you'll need to install the udev devel package to
> > make sure you have at least one config backend.
> > 
> > right now, I suspect that you disable HAL, udev isn't enabled so the server
> > simply doesn't detect your input devices.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> >    Peter
> > 
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