[arch-general] HAL depreciation

[Ty John (sand_man)]

On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:24:54 +0530
Nilesh Govindarajan <lists at itech7.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Ty John <ty-ml at eye-of-odin.com>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:08:22 +0530
> > Nilesh Govindarajan <lists at itech7.com> wrote:
> >
> >> > USB mice have worked without hal for a long time. It's just
> >> > hotplugging that won't work.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Well, I recently copied /etc/group.pacnew to /etc/group which
> >> didn't have the hal and gdm groups.
> >> HAL didn't start, and when I started KDE (xinit startkde) or GDM or
> >> KDM, neither keyboard nor mouse worked. After adding hal group, it
> >> worked fine, since HAL started succesfully.
> >>
> >
> >
> > But did you put it in your xorg.conf file?
> >
> 
> What to put ?
> 

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#Configuring