hald(8) vs. xorg-server's HAL

[Jean-Sébastien Pédron]

Hi!

A few days ago, xserver 1.14 was committed with a new input device
detection backend based on devd(8) instead of hald(8).

It appears many people disabled hald(8) in their /etc/rc.conf and now
see regressions. So let's clarify this.

The X.Org server was a consumer of the service provided by hald(8) among
many others. Now, by default, xserver uses devd(8) to perform the same task.

However, hald(8) is still required by many Desktop environment! Beside
input devices, hald(8) helps some applications list other kind of
resources, such as storage device or mountpoints, and get notifications.

Therefore, keep hald_enable="yes" in your /etc/rc.conf unless you are
sure no application use it.

-- 
Jean-Sébastien Pédron

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