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Originally posted by energyman View Postgood riddance! hal is a POS, breaking all the time. Its config files are worse than the stuff they replace. Just compare a nice Xorg.conf with Hal's *fdi files. Unreadable xml - and convoluted crap.
Code:~ $ apropos xorg | grep '(5)' || echo 'quack!' xorg.conf [xorg] (5) - configuration File for Xorg X server ~ $ apropos fdi | grep '(5)' || echo 'quack!' quack! ~ $ apropos hal | grep '(5)' || echo 'quack!' quack!
I tried to get a tablet working once with a HAL-using Xserver. Wow, that was weeks of fun.
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Originally posted by Ant P. View PostThe worst part of hal is this:
Code:~ $ apropos xorg | grep '(5)' || echo 'quack!' xorg.conf [xorg] (5) - configuration File for Xorg X server ~ $ apropos fdi | grep '(5)' || echo 'quack!' quack! ~ $ apropos hal | grep '(5)' || echo 'quack!' quack!
I tried to get a tablet working once with a HAL-using Xserver. Wow, that was weeks of fun.
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Originally posted by deanjo View PostDocumentation is always a problem. Even if it does exist all to often it's outdated in many projects.
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Originally posted by energyman View Post>Documentation is always a problem. Even if it does exist all to often it's outdated in many projects.
while talking about X and hal documentation. So pretty much - yes.
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