[arch-general] [arch-announce] Xorg 1.8 moves to extra

[jwbirdsong]

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/
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>>
>> WOW nice. So HAL is not needed anymore ?
>>
>
> Not for X.  You may still need it for other things...
>
> Allan
>
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