xorg 7.4 questions

[Warren Block]

On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, doug at safeport.com wrote:

[xdm slow startup]

> The answer appears to be to add an empty LISTEN statement to 
> /usr/local/lib/X11/xdm/Xaccess. The xdm package issues a IPV6 DHCP request. 
> While the xdm man page suggests this is not needed:
>
>       To disable listening for XDMCP connections altogther, a line of
>       LISTEN with no addresses may be specified, or the previously
>       supported method of setting DisplayManager.requestPort to 0 may
>       be used.
>
> This seems not to be the case as adding this line gets rid of the long delay 
> and suppresses the IPV6 DHCP request. The DisplayManager.requestPort is set 
> to 0 in the default configuration. This solves the long start (I am pretty 
> sure). Thank you for your suggestions that pushed me to find this.

Hmm.  That sounds like a bug (maybe IPV6 support being added but the 
feature to disable it being forgotten).  Does having an IPV6 localhost 
defined in /etc/hosts ("::1 localhost") have the same effect?

> I am also pretty sure my hardware just does not work with hal and dbus.

What keyboard and mouse do you have?  Also, which version of FreeBSD are 
you using?

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA