Hello

I have installed Slackware 13.1 on my workstation. I do not want anything to do with HAL or D-BUS, and the first component i found out depends on this is the X Window System. I know the version of X Window System in slackware-current does not need these components. Is it possible to use the X components from slackware-current, and all other packages from Slackware 13.1? or is there a better way?

Any ideas are very appreciated.

you can always build your own X Window packages using -Current's SlackBuild

X11 in Slackware 13.1 will run without HAL if you add the following lines to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AllowEmptyInput" "false"
Option "AutoAddDevices" "false"
Option "AutoEnableDevices" "false"
EndSection

Ed

To further clarify:

You need to have a fully defined xorg.conf in addition to the above lines.

Also, some components of KDE and XFCE my need HAL or D-BUS... but I'm sure it's only the automount portions.

DBus is pretty much ubiquitous these days - you're not going to have much luck trying to get along without it.

I have located the X11 SlackBuild on the Slackware 13.1 DVD and copied this to my home folder, then i added --disable-config-hal to xorg-server in the configure directory. Then i ran the SlackBuild a couple of times and installed the required dependencies, finally a package named xorg-server-1.7.7-i486.1.txz was found in /tmp/x11-build/, this package was installed with installpkg and after shifting to runlevel 4, xdm was loaded without complaining about missing HAL libraries.

This almost seems to easy, could i have been missing something important and created a security problem? I found a post talking about exporting PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR=/dev/null before compiling Xorg, i did not do that, should i have done that?

I am very new to Slackware and i try to find and read as much documentation as possible, but i have not found much on this area.

So far as i understand, DBus is an IPC system used for communication between applications and make devices plugged into the machines automatically available for the user. I am not sure about the first, but i do absolute not want any devices made automatically available for me. If a insert a DVD or a USB drive i want to mount it using the mount command as it have been done for years.

I do not use KDE or XFCE as they are too heavy for my taste.

DBus is used by other parts of the system to do lots of things, and one of them happens to be automounting. Throw out HAL if that's what you wish, but you gain nothing by throwing out DBus.