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Date:      Sat, 28 Apr 2012 13:11:44 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Marco Beishuizen <mbeis@xs4all.nl>
Cc:        Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>, freebsd-x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Odd mouse issue with new xorg-server
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1204281309240.7327@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1204281903260.3098@localhost>
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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.



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