Hi all, I've got to upgrade my home desktop distro (Fedora 8 being not updated anymore) so I thought I'd give Ubuntu 8.10 a try. After trying the GNOME GUI overload thing for a few days, I once again decided I Don't Like That, and went back to fvwm. I then proceed to disable the plague of daemons which had infected my system.
I observe an interesting behavior: If "hald" is not running, then I get no keyboard in X. Even the zap sequence (CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE) doesn't work. I could switch virtual consoles, though, so it was easy enough to restart the hald (and dbus-daemon, which it depends on). So, my questions are: A1. What the frak has gone wrong with Linux where even the frelling *KEYBOARD* needs two daemons running? A2. Is is practical to want to run Ubuntu without all these dameons, or am I fighting the design assumptions of the system here? A3. If the answer to A2 is "It is practical", anyone want to tell me how, or point me at a writeup, etc.? A4. If the answer to A2 is "It is NOT practical", anyone have some advice on a distro that doesn't pervert everything good about Unix? -- Ben _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/