On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 06:37:46PM -0500, Sean C. Farley wrote: > On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, David Wolfskill 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.) > > How about building your system without HAL? I have been quite happy > without it. As long as I have the following in my Xorg.conf, everything > (that I need) seems to be detected nicely: > > Section "ServerLayout" > ... > Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off" > ... > EndSection Well, ref. the above "I stopped trying to use hald(8)" -- I did this by: Section "ServerFlags" Option "AutoAddDevices" "False" EndSection And then disabling the hald & dbus startup. It had been working in stable/6, stable/7, and head before the (apparently DRI-related) issues arose in stable/7 and (mnore recently) head. Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill david_at_catwhisker.org Depriving a girl or boy of an opportunity for education is evil. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key.
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