Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:22:08 +0100 From: martinko <gamato@users.sf.net> To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VirtualBox and HAL / D-Bus / PulseAudio (?) Message-ID: <hilh2f$8oh$1@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1001131556250.14723@thor.farley.org> References: <hildvj$tmj$1@ger.gmane.org> <055e22705d8b630023fc8056fb93c533.squirrel@webmail.itac.at> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1001131556250.14723@thor.farley.org>
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Sean C. Farley wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Bernhard Froehlich wrote: > >> On Wed, January 13, 2010 10:29 pm, martinko wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> As I do run D-Bus but do not run HAL nor PulseAudio on my system I'm >>> wondering what are the options and consequences : >>> - port option DBUS=on and rc.conf option DBUS=YES but without HAL >>> - port option DBUS=off .. what do I lose ? >> >> You need HAL and DBus for CD/DVD Host access. > > Actually, HAL is not needed by VirtualBox (at least the OSE version). I > just verified that the guest automatically detects a CD I put into the > drive. I use WITHOUT_HAL globally in building ports. It may be needed > for USB (non-OSE) support, but I am not sure. From my understanding of the Makefile it seems DBUS option has nothing to do with HAL. Is there a global WITHOUT_HAL option we can use ? That would be great. And I can definitely live without PulseAudio, OSS works great here. Cheers, Martin
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