I can't speak for current Solaris, but Xorg on illumos definitely needs hal.
(Otherwise the mouse and keyboard don't work.) On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult < i...@metux.net> wrote: > Hi folks, > > we're currently discussing dropping HAL support from the Xserver, > since we didn't find any active user of it anymore. But somebody > pointed out it might still be used in Solaris world: > > https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/issues/162#issuecomment-2983371353 > > Is that correct ? Shall we keep it ? > > Note: I'm talking about the HAL that's once been invented at Gnome 2. > (maybe there're other things by the same name). > > thx > --mtx > > -- > --- > Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult > Free software and Linux embedded engineering > i...@metux.net -- +49-151-27565287 > -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------------ illumos: illumos-discuss Permalink: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T3110f63636a43522-Mf0771449760ee60c1cb7d98e Delivery options: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
