On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 08:28:36PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Alex Samad <alex@samad.com.au> [2009 Jul 16 19:40 -0500]: > > I am all for convenience, but I am also for the right to choose, sounds > > like HAL is not really needed for X, so it should be a recommends and > > not a depends. > > I've played some with the new features of Xorg earlier this year, > xrandr. The HAL capability is essential for plugging in an external > monitor of unknown resolution and then being able use it seemlessly as > a mutlihead system. Note that I played with it for a couple of days > and the "monitor" was a Samsung LCD TV. I have no doubt that I would > have spent days getting things to work the old way. I seem to be able to do this with my nvidia driver and nvidia settings > > This issue can be solved by identifying what HAL provides to Xorg. > Evidently the Debian X Strike Force team has decided that HAL is a > dependency that will enhance the distribution. Other users disagree, > obviously. Perhaps this identifies an area of possible improvement in > Debian where the users could provide input to the developers in a more > direct fashion than via bug reports. I don't have a clue as to how > this might be implemented, however. but as has been pointed out it is going to be replaced > > - Nate >> >
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