Why hald causes system to hang up?

[Warren Block]

On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, Yuri wrote:

> I enabled hald: hald_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf. This fixed the problem 
> with kdm which otherwise always fails during the first login attempt.
>
> But hald caused few unintended consequences:
>
> periodic hangups: system becomes unresponsive for a few seconds around every 
> 15 seconds, especially when I type in KDE konsole.
> string in konsole doesn't get selected any more when I double click on it.
>
> Anybody has any insight why hald would cause such consequences?

Do you have AllowEmptyInput in in ServerLayout or ServerFlags 
of xorg.conf?

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA