Am Sonntag, 8. Februar 2015 schrieb baho-utot@...: > > 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. Funny, HAL is not needed for the generation of a static xorg.conf, either. Even Xorg autoconfiguration works without HAL. I have filed a bugreport, https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=197411 Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA.