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Date:      Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:32:01 -0500
From:      Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Wes Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: An upgrade to xorg-server-1.5.3_1,1/libxcb-1.1.93
Message-ID:  <1232947921.1755.2.camel@wombat.2hip.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0901252203430.91753@ibyngvyr.purzvxnyf.bet>
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On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 22:12 -0600, Wes Morgan wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Robert Noland wrote:
>=20
> > On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 21:54 -0500, Alex Goncharov wrote:
>=20
> > Xorg is moving more in that direction... Using hal for device
> > configuration is now the default.  However, you can still statically
> > configure devices.  See xorg.conf(5), AllowEmptyInput, AutoAddDevices,
> > AutoEnableDevices.
> >
> > So, yes you can still configure it without HAL support, it just isn't
> > the preferred method.
> >
>=20
> I've been avoiding HAL like the plague as well. It frobs my ath wireless=20
> card when it tries to probe it.=20

This issue should be resolved in -CURRENT.  It was actually a kernel
issue that I whined about until it got fixed.  running dumpcis on a
running card produced the same issue.

> Disabling it works, but KDE runs like=20
> garbage with hal running, and I get zombie processes of=20
> "hal-storage-cleanup--all-mountpoints" when I try to shut it down... In=20
> short, I avoid it wherever possible!

I don't run kde, so no help there..

robert.


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