Re: misc/compat6x port no longer sufficient for DRI under head?

From: Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn_at_freenet.de> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:02:42 +0200 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:39:55 UTC

On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:15:19 -0700
David Wolfskill <david_at_catwhisker.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 08:32:09AM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote:
> > ...
> > Have you tried re-enabling hald and dbus and configuring X to use those?
> 
> No, I haven't.
> 
> One of the reasons I stopped trying to use hald(8) was that when I
> booted head, hald went into a 100% CPU busy loop.  (Mind, this was with
> hald built inder stable/6.)
> 

The current hald behaves much better.  I saw the problem of 100% CPU
usage a few months (weeks?) ago too, but now hald uses virtually no CPU.

Of course, my hald was made with sources from head, so YMMV.

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Gary Jennejohn