On 02/07/2015 14:45, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > Am Samstag, 7. Februar 2015 schrieb Timothy Pearson: > >> What does FreeBSD recommend as a HAL replacement? udev was the closest I >> could find, and even then I had to implement huge chunks of HAL >> functionality on top of udev, udisks, upower, etc. Surely they aren't >> suggesting applications natively probe the hardware; that would be >> ridiculous and never supported by TDE. >> >> Tim > The handbook says: Xorg uses HAL. > > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html > > Nik > > That is incorrect. HAL is only needed if you want to create an xorg.conf $ pkg info xorg-server xorg-server-1.14.7_1,1 Name : xorg-server Version : 1.14.7_1,1 Installed on : Fri Feb 6 21:33:03 EST 2015 Origin : x11-servers/xorg-server Architecture : freebsd:10:x86:64 Prefix : /usr/local Categories : x11-servers Licenses : MIT Maintainer : x11@... WWW : http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/xorg Comment : X.Org X server and related programs Options : DEVD : on HAL : off SUID : on Shared Libs required: libpixman-1.so.0 libpciaccess.so.0 libdrm.so.2 libXfont.so.1 libXdmcp.so.6 libXau.so.6 Shared Libs provided: libwfb.so libvgahw.so libvbe.so libshadowfb.so libshadow.so libint10.so libglx.so libfbdevhw.so libfb.so libexa.so Annotations : repo_type : binary repository : pcbsd-major Flat size : 4.59MiB Description : This package contains the X.Org X server and some associated programs.