howto configure FreeBSD's hal?

[Garrett Cooper]

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Chuck Robey <chuckr at telenix.org> wrote:
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> I can't seem to find anything on how to set up hal on FreeBSD.  I hope it's
> because I'm being lousy at searching, not that there just isn't anything on the
> subject.  I think all I want is to set up my Logitech wireless PS/2 (via a USB
> to PS/2 converter) mouse, and a PS/2 keyboard.  I have a RAID/1 (via a twa
> driver), I don't know if that affects my hal or not.  I honestly would far
> arther do my own configuration, if I could only find anything written up on how
> to accomplish this on FreeBSD (current).
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> Sure would appreciate a pointer to this.  I have the idea that anything I could
> find would be written for Linux, which wouldn't be terribly correct for
> FreeBSD's device setup, am I right?

Hi Chuck,
    What does the output look like when you try to boot with `boot -v'
and how recent is your kernel, world, what revision of the source tree
are they based off of (RELENG_7, HEAD?) and is your version of hal
up-to-date?
Thanks,
-Garrett