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Re: HOWTO run xorg without hal



Hi,
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Dirk <noisyb@gmx.net> wrote:
> some true a**hole decreased linux' value as an alternative to windows by
> making hal a dependency(!) of xorg now...
>
> you can get the sovereignty over your system back by purging hal from
> your installation and adding this
>
> -------------------------------------
> Section "ServerFlags"
>    Option      "AutoAddDevices"    "false"
> EndSection
> ----------------------------------------

This days I'm reading  about hal is not very opportune in some cases
[1]. I did a fast google search and google tells about HAL opens tries
to open too files [2].

Do you have any interesting (rational) link about these issues ?

Regards,

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=515214
[2] http://www.linux.com/feature/55903


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