Re: _at_188498: u3g works, Xorg does not

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 07:12:21AM -0700, Warren Block wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Andrew Milton wrote:
> 
> > +-------[ 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.

no, sorry, my fault. If I rebuild xorg-server without hal, and then all
above ports, they they no longer depend on hal:

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

#

I'll give this a go.

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