[Bug 246261] x11-servers/xorg-server: 1.18.4 -> 1.20.8, no keyboard & mouse, config/hal: couldn't initialise context

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            Bug ID: 246261
           Summary: x11-servers/xorg-server: 1.18.4 -> 1.20.8, no keyboard
                    & mouse, config/hal: couldn't initialise context
           Product: Ports & Packages
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Some People
          Priority: ---
         Component: Individual Port(s)
          Assignee: x11 at FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: jcfyecrayz at liamekaens.com
          Assignee: x11 at FreeBSD.org
             Flags: maintainer-feedback?(x11 at FreeBSD.org)

Created attachment 214201
  --> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=214201&action=edit
[patch] add back --disable-hal-config

FreeBSD 11.4/stable.  xorg-server-1.2.8,1.  Xorg.0.log shows this:

[ 62574.196] (EE) config/hal: couldn't initialise context: unknown error (null)

And there's no keyboard or mouse.

Rebuilding xorg-server with --disable-config-hal fixes that.


Is there any reason we don't just always use --disable-config-hal these days? 
I suspect r526589 should have probably left --disable-config-hal instead of
allowing the configure script to use the default auto-detect mechanism (some
ports still depend on sysutils/hal, so if hal is installed, it will get turned
on for xorg-server).

Maybe restore it as a default-off option, but that would be backwards progress.

Also running hald fixes that as well, although that was not necessary for
1.18.4 (with HAL off), probably because HAL=off explicitly set
--disable-config-hal.

The attached patch explicitly sets --disable-config-hal.  I don't think a
PORTREVISION bump is necessary (poudriere-built pkgs will get built without hal
support since xorg-server does not currently pull in ports that depend on hal),
but it could help for users (possibly just non-evdev 11.x users?) who built
from ports.

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