Need help untangling Xorg behavior on Haswell board, KMS, etc. etc.

[Warren Block]

On Tue, 23 Jul 2013, Niclas Zeising wrote:

> In general, running without a xorg.conf should work, but there are a lot
> of different hardware and setups out there, and just because it works on
> Linux does not mean it works on FreeBSD without xorg.conf.  If you want
> to have more control of exactly what's going on, a config is probably to
> prefer.
> If you use xorg without HAL, you must have a config at least detailing
> your input devices for them to work properly.

My experience is that input device sections are not needed unless custom 
settings are needed in them. X autodetects them fine without HAL.