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

[Koen Kooi <k.kooi@student.utwente.nl>]

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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 :)

regards,

Koen
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