You did not read attentively what I wrote:promeneur wrote:there is an inconsistency : kde 4.8.4 via solid uses udisk and xorg uses hal. it's time to unify this, isn't it ? moreover it is known that hal is now deprecated.
HAL was deprecated in 2011.0; in a standard 2010.2 it was still needed:Alas our xorg for 2010.2 is still compiled with HAL support to autodiscover input devices...
so our xorg package for 2010.2 still builds with HAL support enabled to maintain the maximal compatibility with the older distro release...
However, I have already tried privately a build without HAL support on my 2010.2 (it is a compile-time option) and found no real issue: so I would like to make the build of the newer 1.13 (or better 1.13.1, if released in time) without enabling this support...
I'm only waiting the release of the new Mesa 9.0 and of the major video drivers (ati and nouveau, mainly) for the new xserver.
But you can also do-it-yourself, if you don't like waiting:
you only need (beside the build tools and the needed dependencies) the xserver srpm from our repo and, when unpacked in the rpm builddir,
to change only 3 lines from the start of the relevant .spec file:
from
to%define enable_hal 1
%define enable_udev 0
%define enable_dbus %{enable_hal}
and rebuild with "rpmbuild -bb namefile.spec"; add "--target i686" to the command line if you are on a 32bit arch.%define enable_hal 0
%define enable_udev 1
%define enable_dbus %{enable_hal}
At the end you will have a bunch of rpms that you can simply install in place of the our ones and voilà
a xserver without need of HAL.
GvM