Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:53:22 -0700 From: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> To: "Sean C. Farley" <scf@FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/compat6x port no longer sufficient for DRI under head? Message-ID: <20090917235322.GM1212@albert.catwhisker.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0909171319090.47101@thor.farley.org> References: <20090917134924.GZ1212@albert.catwhisker.org> <20090917170431.47be4a06@ernst.jennejohn.org> <20090917152957.GA1212@albert.catwhisker.org> <b269bc570909170832u792f851fk4ace6bfa4c9a7321@mail.gmail.com> <20090917161519.GB1212@albert.catwhisker.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0909171319090.47101@thor.farley.org>
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On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 06:37:46PM -0500, Sean C. Farley wrote:
> 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
Well, ref. the above "I stopped trying to use hald(8)" -- I did this by:
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AutoAddDevices" "False"
EndSection
And then disabling the hald & dbus startup.
It had been working in stable/6, stable/7, and head before the
(apparently DRI-related) issues arose in stable/7 and (mnore recently)
head.
Peace,
david
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