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




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