Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:17:14 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Kris Moore <kris@pcbsd.org> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What still requires HAL? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206111313090.84255@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <4FD60AA1.3090403@pcbsd.org> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206091859040.71605@wonkity.com> <20120610140407.62ad9de8.miwi@FreeBSD.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206100634250.75580@wonkity.com> <4FD60AA1.3090403@pcbsd.org>
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On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, Kris Moore wrote: > 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? Not with AutoAddDevices off, or even better, with xorg-server built with HAL disabled. But that's just X. DEs have other requirements. xfce doesn't require it if the options are disabled in x11-wm/xfce4-session and devel/gvfs.
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