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Cc: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>, freebsd-x11@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Odd mouse issue with new xorg-server
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On Sat, 28 Apr 2012, Marco Beishuizen wrote:

>> Another option which people seem to miss is to just build xorg-server with 
>> the HAL option disabled.  At least for xfce, HAL is not required and 
>> provides no benefits, so why run it?
>
> Hal is required for a lot of applications. I have a scanner which uses xsane 
> to scan, and this requires hal.

Could be a dependency thing.  xsane works here without hal; I used it a 
couple of days ago.  dbus is installed and running, though.