Re: _at_188498: u3g works, Xorg does not

On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Andrew Milton wrote:

> +-------[ Anton Shterenlikht ]----------------------
> | On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:58:28PM +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> | > On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:00:50 +0000
> | > "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> | >
> | > > In message <20090212.192851.57971498.haro_at_kgt.co.jp>, haro_at_kgt.co.jp writes:
> | > >
> | > > >
> | > > >Section "ServerFlags"
> | > > >        Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off"
> | > > >EndSection
> | > >
> | > > That also works, and avoids four hald processes on the system, so
> | > > I prefer this fix.
> | > >
> | >
> | > I agree.  Especially since hald eats 100% of one of my cores (AMD64 X2)
> | > apparently doing nothing.
> | >
> | > I remade the xorg server w/o hal and am now a much happier camper.
> |
> | but many other x parts depend on hal:
> |
> | # pkg_info -xR hal
> | Information for hal-0.5.11_17:
> |
> | Required by:
> | xf86-input-keyboard-1.3.2
> | xf86-video-intel-2.5.1
> | xf86-video-vesa-2.1.0
> | xf86-input-mouse-1.4.0_3
> |
> | and these aren't optional, I think.
>
> But if xdm or other display managers are started from /etc/tty, X starts
> before hal does leaving you with an unresponsive login screen.

That was fixed for me with xorg-server-1.5.3_5,1 from Sun Feb 8 07:23:46 
2009.  At least on -stable, haven't tried it yet on -current.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA