compiling xserver without hal

[Justin Mattock]

On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Peter Hutterer
<peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
> On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 01:00:42AM -0700, Justin Mattock wrote:
>> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Paul Bender <pebender at san.rr.com> wrote:
>> > Justin Mattock wrote:
>> >> quick question:
>> >> if I compile xserver without hal
>> >> (noticed udev 142 has no voluemid)
>> >> will I be able to use the mouse and keyboard
>> >> (and wireless mouse)
>> >> once I startx?
>> >>
>> >> if so, what switches do I need to make sure are set
>> >> before I compile the xserver?
>> >
>> > I build xorg-server without HAL. The two options that are relevant (as
>> > far as I can tell) to this are
>> >     --disable-config-dbus
>> >     --disable-config-hal
>> > In addition, when running this xorg-server, you will need to configure
>> > the input devices in your xorg.conf.
>
> no you don't. the server inserts standard input device sections into the
> xorg.conf, so there's rarely a need to actually have that in the config.
>
>> so far all xlibs, video modules, xserver
>> and dependencies have compiled fine
>> without hal(hopefully later on, the same story)
>
> only the xserver module requires hal, nothing else.
>
> Cheers,
>  Peter
>

hey alright startx works
(feels good to see xserver started)
at the moment everything seems o.k.
cant seem to open a terminal though
(probably need to run fluxbox-menu_config)
as soon as I'm able to open a terminal,
and type dmesg then I'm good to go.




-- 
Justin P. Mattock