Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:41:38 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Bob Hall <rjhjr0@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Restarting hal Message-ID: <20090725084138.f4338065.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20090724150239.GA1167@stamfordbru> References: <20090723174350.GA1346@stamfordbru> <20090724085743.9abb7f2e.freebsd@edvax.de> <20090724150239.GA1167@stamfordbru>
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On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:02:39 -0400, Bob Hall <rjhjr0@gmail.com> wrote: > Aside from the ctrl-alt-bksp bug, this has been the easiest X setup I've > ever done. I've tried it with and without hal and both are easy to set > up. Given my level of ignorance, that's saying something. I've seen a > lot of complaints about Xorg's new system, but I like it. I'm sure it works very well on up-to-date hardware, but on older hardware, where all the autodetect magic won't work properly, problems may occur. Furthermore, if you need to have a "non-standard" keyboard layout, e. g. the german one, this has to be set in a different place now. As far as I know, HAL and DBUS, along with FreeBSD 8, work very well for different automounting scenarios (CD, DVD, USB). Soon I will encounter the joy of the new X modularity and dependencies. :-) It's still worth mentioning that it's possible to run X in the "old fashioned" way, but DBUS and HAL have to be excluded at compile time. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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