Re: Hal and KDM breakage (was Re: KDE4 and input events stalled)

From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:38:02 -0400
On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 16:38 -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> Not sure if this is even possible, but I thought I'd throw it out
> there. Would starting hald before ttys are loaded, then restarting it
> again at the end of the boot process work to solve this issue? It
> seems that you have 2 distinct 'flavors' of hald here (with vty
> support, and without), so if it's smart enough to do the right thing
> for its consumers when it is restarted I think this approach might work.

Yes, this should work.  If you modify hald's rc.d script to start
immediately, then restart itself based on the getty delay already
present, I believe both X and device management will work.

Joe

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Joe Marcus Clarke
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Received on Sun Apr 12 2009 - 18:37:53 UTC

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