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Old 31st May 2008
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Originally Posted by warriors View Post
But what if I disabled it, can I still use other display managers?
The xf86(4) driver is a fundamental requirement of X, not for any specific window manager or display manager. Turning off, or setting machdep.allowaperature to zero, will make X unable to run at all.

The rationale behind requiring xf86 is a fundamental design flaw of X, but to their defense, it was difficult to come up with a generalized solution which would work across multiple Unix platforms & hardware.
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