Hal and KDM breakage (was Re: KDE4 and input events stalled)
Joe Marcus Clarke
marcus at FreeBSD.org
Wed Apr 8 00:26:07 PDT 2009
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 00:23 -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> 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?
I don't believe KDE is CK-aware, so tests would be meaningless. The
command is ck-list-sessions, though. If working, the current session
details should show up as being ACTIVE.
Joe
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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome at FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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