On 02/08/2015 09:36, office@... wrote: > > 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 > > > > I have a github account and wonder if you would like to work on getting trinity working on freebsd in concert? No sense duplicating work.