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From: "Sean C. Farley" <scf@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: misc/compat6x port no longer sufficient for DRI under head?
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On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, David Wolfskill wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 08:32:09AM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote:
>> ...
>> Have you tried re-enabling hald and dbus and configuring X to use 
>> those?
>
> No, I haven't.
>
> One of the reasons I stopped trying to use hald(8) was that when I 
> booted head, hald went into a 100% CPU busy loop.  (Mind, this was 
> with hald built inder stable/6.)

How about building your system without HAL?  I have been quite happy 
without it.  As long as I have the following in my Xorg.conf, everything 
(that I need) seems to be detected nicely:

Section "ServerLayout"
     ...
     Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off"
     ...
EndSection

Sean
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