How to run the X xserver in a chroot environment

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Sun Jun 14 15:40:42 PDT 2009


On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 01:35:19PM +0200, Maarten Maathuis wrote:
> They can never be replaced by evdev, because evdev is linux-only. But
> yes, evdev is often used on linux platforms, but it does need a
> working hal.

HAL and evdev are independent. HAL is a replacement for xorg.conf and most
distributions ship a HAL configuration that selects the evdev driver for
input devices.

You can use the mouse/kbd driver with HAL and you can use evdev with
xorg.conf.

Cheers,
  Peter



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