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
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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.