have to restart gdm after reboot for mouse to move

Mike Harding mvh at ix.netcom.com
Thu Jan 29 09:39:19 PST 2009


...this is with everything completely up-to-date, and the gdm startup
script does have the 'hal' dependency:

# PROVIDE: gdm
# REQUIRE: LOGIN cleanvar moused syscons dbus hald

any ideas?  This is a little annoying, but I can live with it...

Here's the console log, showing moused and hald starting first:

Jan 29 06:44:30 bsd kernel: Starting default moused:
Jan 29 06:44:30 bsd kernel: moused: 
Jan 29 06:44:30 bsd kernel: unable to open /dev/psm0: No such file or directory
Jan 29 06:44:30 bsd kernel: 
Jan 29 06:44:30 bsd kernel: .
Jan 29 06:44:30 bsd kernel: Starting dbus.
Jan 29 06:44:32 bsd kernel: /etc/rc: WARNING: $dbus_enable is not set properly - see rc.conf(5).
Jan 29 06:44:32 bsd kernel: Starting hald.
Jan 29 06:44:32 bsd kernel: Configuring syscons:
Jan 29 06:44:32 bsd kernel: blanktime
Jan 29 06:44:32 bsd kernel: screensaver
Jan 29 06:44:32 bsd kernel: .
Jan 29 06:44:32 bsd kernel: Starting gdm.


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