misc/compat6x port no longer sufficient for DRI under head?
Sean C. Farley
scf at FreeBSD.org
Fri Sep 18 01:14:13 UTC 2009
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, David Wolfskill wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 06:37:46PM -0500, Sean C. Farley wrote:
>> On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, David Wolfskill wrote:
>>> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 08:32:09AM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote:
>>>> ...
>>>> Have you tried re-enabling hald and dbus and configuring X to use
>>>> those?
>>>
>>> No, I haven't.
>>>
>>> One of the reasons I stopped trying to use hald(8) was that when I
>>> booted head, hald went into a 100% CPU busy loop. (Mind, this was
>>> with hald built inder stable/6.)
>>
>> How about building your system without HAL? I have been quite happy
>> without it. As long as I have the following in my Xorg.conf,
>> everything (that I need) seems to be detected nicely:
>>
>> Section "ServerLayout"
>> ...
>> Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off"
>> ...
>> EndSection
>
> Well, ref. the above "I stopped trying to use hald(8)" -- I did this by:
You expected me to actually read pertinent information. ;) Sorry about
that.
> Section "ServerFlags"
> Option "AutoAddDevices" "False"
> EndSection
>
> And then disabling the hald & dbus startup.
I built all of my ports using WITHOUT_HAL as opposed to disabling hald
startup. Did you try this variation?
> It had been working in stable/6, stable/7, and head before the
> (apparently DRI-related) issues arose in stable/7 and (mnore recently)
> head.
WITHOUT_HAL throughout ports, dbus running and the option I listed above
works well for me with stable/7 (r196739).
Sean
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