On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 10:58:22AM +0200, Niclas Zeising wrote: > On 2012-07-14 09:07, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > I thought HAL was deprecated anyways, why not simply disable it by default > > across the gang? I've never enabled it and X server always runs fine. > > The issue with HAL is that, while it is deprecated in the Linux > community, we in the FreeBSD project does not have a replacement for > HAL, wrt automatic mounting of usb drives (which can probably be solved > using devd) and device recognition and addition in xorg (which is harder > to solve). A lot of people expect to ust be able to run "startx" and > have it recognize a mouse, keyboard etc. With that said, it is quite > possible, and very simple to run x without hal. But then you need a > xorg.conf, and you won't get automatic recognition of devices > (keyboards, mice) that are plugged in after you've started x, regardless > of whether they are in xorg.conf or not. > Regards!
Understood. I never wanted automounting and do not own an USB keyboard, however, plugging USB or bluetooth mice always worked for me without HAL. Perhaps I just have a lucky xorg.conf. ;-) ./danfe _______________________________________________ cvs-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "cvs-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
