Turning off HAL for xorg-server

[Tony Sweeney]

On 11/17/2014 12:35, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> Hi, Reference my:
> "Julian H. Stacey" wrote:
>> =?windows-1252?Q?Jean-S=E9bastien_P=E9dron?= wrote:
>>> On 16.11.2014 03:37, Warren Block wrote:
>>>> xorg-server no longer requires HAL.  When can we turn the HAL option of=
>>> f
>>>> in the port?
>>
>> With current src & ports & an /etc/X11/xorg.conf freshly produced
>> on FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT 2 days back by: X -configure I had to Add
>> hald_enable="YES" to my rc.conf before internal & external keyboards
>> & mice would resume working.
>>
>> I did not previously need hald_enable in /etc/rc.conf for partitions
>> on same PC running X on 8.4-RELEASE, 9.3-RELEASE, 10.0-RELEASE.
>>
>> Most users will want an X PC that by default works with keyboard & mouse,
>> FreeBSD defaults should support that IMO, as minority higher skilled X purists
>> can easily comment out input if they are building a non standard PC.
>>
>> PS FYI I have long had devd ON, on all 4 FreeBSD partitions & releases,
>> (in case that makes a difference).
>
> Since I added hald_enable="YES, X -configure always crashes !

This currently seems to crash no matter what, it's even in the Wiki:

https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics#Tested_hardware_matrix

This a little shabby, à mon avis (moue)

Tony.


> (without -configure normal X input works).
> To investigate I'll comment out some mounts & add background_fsck="YES".
>
> Cheers,
> Julian
>