Re: Koen Kooi : xserver-xorg 1.7.3: fix regression where hal was disabled

[Dallas Foley <dfoley@techsol.ca>]

Koen Kooi wrote:
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> On 12-01-10 15:03, Martin Jansa wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 11:46:51AM +0000, git version control wrote:
>>> Module: openembedded.git
>>> Branch: org.openembedded.dev
>>> Commit: 3a9b352acba24c78b562d8dc6527b774cbb86041
>>> URL:    http://gitweb.openembedded.net/?p=openembedded.git&a=commit;h=3a9b352acba24c78b562d8dc6527b774cbb86041
>>>
>>> Author: Koen Kooi <koen@openembedded.org>
>>> Date:   Fri Jan  8 12:44:47 2010 +0100
>>>
>>> xserver-xorg 1.7.3: fix regression where hal was disabled
>>>
>>> * this fixes the "my touchscreen isn't working anymore" bug
>> Thanks,
>>
>> can we add hal conditionaly as XINERAMA is?
>> Maybe for both om-gta01, om-gta02?
>>
>> We have input configuration in xorg.conf and with hal for input
>> detection deprecated by xorg devs I guess we won't change that before
>> 1.8 xserver (maybe with deviceKit or something else).
> 
> AIUI you can do --enable-udev to get udev based device handling (aka
> "The Future") working, but that would involve one of the OE devs
> expanding the current touchscreen0 udev rule.
> - --enable hal and --enable-udev are mutually exclusive, though.
> 
>> Before this change hal could be removed from om-gta*
>>
>> I'm also willing to accept that we also need hal from reasons I don't know
>> about yet..
> 
> e.g. people wanting to use xf86-input-tslib on gta0X, like me :)

Xorg 1.7.3 and 1.7.4 seems to get stuck somewhere for me when logging out.
If I "--disable-config-hal" and put my touchscreen info back in xorg.conf then 
my touchscreen is Ok. Anyone else have this problem with touch screens or is it 
  just isolated to me ?

> 
> regards,
> 
> Koen
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