Comments on: HAL, xserver 1.5.3 and AllowEmptyInput

By: Anton Eliasson

Anton Eliasson — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 21:26:05 +0000

Actually, I was in that same boat for a moment while downgrading the X server in Arch to work properly on a Thinkpad T23. It appears that this “feature” was removed in later X versions and was only present in versions ~1.5 to ~1.7. Thanks for the protip!

By: Also not a joke: XFCE on 39Mb « Motho ke motho ka botho

Also not a joke: XFCE on 39Mb « Motho ke motho ka botho — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:01:23 +0000

[...] xorg.conf file, then edit it for the vesa driver. And I had to reach way, waaay back to 2008 for that AllowEmptyInput setting, or I got the infamous dead desktop that I hated so [...]

By: PS2 Controller

PS2 Controller — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 19:28:11 +0000

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By: hal’s day of reckoning « Motho ke motho ka botho

hal’s day of reckoning « Motho ke motho ka botho — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:07:42 +0000

[...] around November 2008 I have had the singular displeasure of heaping blame upon hal whenever something went southward in [...]

By: kone80

kone80 — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:53:23 +0000

menuconfig -> device drivers -> input device supports -> event interface
is the real solution for this

kone80

By: Oliver Herold (olhe) 's status on Tuesday, 28-Jul-09 09:12:28 UTC - Identi.ca

Oliver Herold (olhe) 's status on Tuesday, 28-Jul-09 09:12:28 UTC - Identi.ca — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:12:33 +0000

[...] http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/11/30/hal-xserver-153-and-allowemptyinput/ könnte auch ein allgemeines problem [...]

By: What’s to like? « Motho ke motho ka botho

What’s to like? « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 13:43:51 +0000

[...] (something, to my knowledge, that still doesn’t work), and really extends all the way to November, when all of X turned sour for me. When X shifted to a reliance on hal and dbus, and I had to rely [...]

By: One week at 100Mhz: X-less and not a hiccup « Motho ke motho ka botho

One week at 100Mhz: X-less and not a hiccup « Motho ke motho ka botho — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:11:09 +0000

[...] the Thinkpad with Awesome. And considering my long-standing fear of the Silicon Motion drivers and my lackluster enthusiasm for Xorg 7.4, the idea of being able to use the greater portion of my computer even if X-Incorporated fail to [...]

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:09:45 +0000

Ech, that’s a matter of personal experience really. I wouldn’t even consider using either HAL or dbus on that 100Mhz laptop, but my 1Ghz machine doesn’t flinch at them. I suppose it’s part of my reluctance to use daemons or subsystems that aren’t truly essential, and on a modern machine, it’s hardly noticed at all.

By: johnraff

johnraff — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:53:52 +0000

How much do HAL and dbus slow things down?
Conversely, what functionality do you lose by not having them, beyond automounting of plugin usb sticks?