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Cc: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org,
	Graham Bentley <admin@cpcnw.co.uk>
Subject: Re: UK Keyboard in 7.2 console and xorg
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> The xorg-server port has an option not to use hal. But it is enabled by
> default.

indeed

                 | |    [X] HAL    Compile with HAL config support

uffff :) how nice. while i have Xorg already installed when i need, and 
don't upgrade it (as it works fine),

once again thank you very much for that info. it's always good to know 
this beforehand.

> The first thing I did when it appeared was to disable it, and X
> has kept working normally with my xorg.conf slightly altered to conform
> to the 20090123 entry in /usr/ports/UPDATING.

that's not a problem i always edit xorg.conf to some extent.