Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2012 22:24:09 -0300 From: Raphael Kubo da Costa <rakuco@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What still requires HAL? Message-ID: <87k3zggds6.fsf@FreeBSD.org> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206091859040.71605@wonkity.com>
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Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> writes: > Does Gnome still require HAL? Does KDE? xfce does not. Are we > approaching a point at which the xorg-server port option for HAL can > be set to default to off? KDE uses a hardware abstraction library called Solid. On FreeBSD, it still uses HAL; the options would be to either write a devd backend for it or somehow make FreeBSD work with udev and friends (for which a backend already exists and is the default on Linux).
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