Robert Noland wrote: > On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 20:24 +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote: >> Oliver Lehmann wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I've used to start my login manager with /etc/ttys for years now (After I >>> considered myself became to lazy to type startx). >>> >>> After yesterdays xorg upgrade I've noticed, that the login manager which >>> comes up right after going to multiuser has no working mouse or keyboard >>> support. This is probably because the login manager gets started by >>> /sbin/init which uses getttyent which parses /etc/ttys. This all happens >>> before hald is being started which is the problem here. >> /etc/ttys is the very last thing in the boot process. >> >>> So the solution seems to be to drop/remove login manager startups >>> from /etc/ttys and move over to rc.d startup. >> It's much more likely that hald isn't working properly. Even if hald >> started late, as soon as it started, your mouse and keyboard would >> start working as soon as hald detects them (that's the whole point >> of using hald, runtime detection). > > I think the root of the issue here is that X isn't able to establish a > connection to hald at startup and does not retry. ...
This implies to me that hald forks before it is connectable. This sounds rather annoying. _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
