alan, et al, after upgrading my opensolaris install to build 107 i saw something i noticed on the december Xorg test binaries, but never got around to debugging. at some point when GDM launches and tries to start X, the screen would flash back and forth between a black screen and the console and eventually dump me back in the console with various reasons listed in Xorg.0.log. killing gdm and relaunching it via svcadm would have everything come up just fine.
as it turns out, the reasons were because hald on my system takes a very long time to launch (over 20sec in fact). by adding hal as a dependency to svc:/application/graphical-login/gdm:default, my laptop starts up properly. i'm not sure if anyone else has this issue -- i couldn't find anything on defects.opensolaris.org -- but wanted to give a heads up. since Xorg 1.5 and beyond uses hald, it might make sense to include that as a dependency on the default manifest for gdm. i love SMF. ;) i'll go ahead and CC the desktop group as well since they are probably the folks who make the call on adding the dependency if thought reasonable. -- eldee @ IBMUS -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
