Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 11:11:29 -0400 From: Kris Moore <kris@pcbsd.org> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What still requires HAL? Message-ID: <4FD60AA1.3090403@pcbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206100634250.75580@wonkity.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206091859040.71605@wonkity.com> <20120610140407.62ad9de8.miwi@FreeBSD.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206100634250.75580@wonkity.com>
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On 06/10/2012 08:45, Warren Block wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Martin Wilke wrote: > >> On Sat, 9 Jun 2012 19:01:08 -0600 (MDT) >> Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: >> >>> 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? >> >> >> Xfce4 need hal as well, (thunar), > > It used to, using hal for automounting removable media. Support for > that was removed upstream in xfce a while back, 4.6 I think. Maybe > hal can do something else for xfce, but I haven't noticed it since > removing hal a year ago. > >> I prefer to let hald enabled as default. Reason is a lot pepole still >> need it. > > Yes, unfortunately. We can only ask porters to make hal optional when > the ported software supports that. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-x11@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I'm going to be playing with removing HAL support in PC-BSD here in the near future. We've created our own auto-mounting GUI application, which works regardless of the DE being used. Plus mav@ has created some patches he will be hopefully be putting into HEAD soon, which does CD/DVD insert notification / polling for devd. With this in place I'm not sure what else HAL would be needed for. Does Xorg still use it for anything, like mouse detection? -- Kris Moore PC-BSD Software iXsystems
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