@188498: u3g works, Xorg does not

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:58:28PM +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:00:50 +0000
> "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> 
> > In message <20090212.192851.57971498.haro at kgt.co.jp>, haro at kgt.co.jp writes:
> > 
> > >
> > >Section "ServerFlags"
> > >        Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off"
> > >EndSection
> > 
> > That also works, and avoids four hald processes on the system, so
> > I prefer this fix.
> > 
> 
> I agree.  Especially since hald eats 100% of one of my cores (AMD64 X2)
> apparently doing nothing.
> 
> I remade the xorg server w/o hal and am now a much happier camper.

but many other x parts depend on hal:

# pkg_info -xR hal
Information for hal-0.5.11_17:

Required by:
xf86-input-keyboard-1.3.2
xf86-video-intel-2.5.1
xf86-video-vesa-2.1.0
xf86-input-mouse-1.4.0_3

and these aren't optional, I think.

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