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On Wed, 11 Dec 2013, James Griffin wrote:

> Is it possible to configure X with the need for hald? If I generate and configure an xorg.conf with the appropriate settings, can I turn hald off?

Yes.  It depends on the environment, AFAIK KDE and Gnome still want hal. 
xfce does not need it.