Hal and KDM breakage (was Re: KDE4 and input events stalled)

[Tim Kientzle]

Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 23:12 -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote:
>>
>> Option 1: Comment out this line from /usr/local/etc/rc.d/hald
>>       #start_cmd="hald_start"
> 
> This sounds right, but I have not validated the functionality of an
> immediate start of hald on -CURRENT.  One problem we were seeing prior
> to bland's work, and prior to the delay was that the keyboard and mouse
> would lock up if CK was started before init spawned the ttys.  So beyond
> making sure CK reports the correct active session, you would want to
> make sure X is usable at all.

I'm using an immediate hald startup right now with
the traditional KDM entry in /etc/ttys and everything
seems just spiffy.  In particular, keyboard and mouse
are quite happy.  (My only problem right now are some
X shutdown issues which I believe to be unrelated.)

I'm not sure how to check "CK reports the correct
active session", though.  Pointers?

Tim