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Date:      Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:12:21 -0700 (MST)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Andrew Milton <akm@theinternet.com.au>
Cc:        Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: @188498: u3g works, Xorg does not
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0902120711230.74431@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090212135415.GF8296@camelot.theinternet.com.au>
References:  <20090212.192851.57971498.haro@kgt.co.jp> <1346.1234436450@critter.freebsd.dk> <20090212125828.2ff46a75@ernst.jennejohn.org> <20090212133329.GA47985@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> <20090212135415.GF8296@camelot.theinternet.com.au>

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On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Andrew Milton wrote:

> +-------[ Anton Shterenlikht ]----------------------
> | On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:58:28PM +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> | > On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:00:50 +0000
> | > "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> | >
> | > > In message <20090212.192851.57971498.haro@kgt.co.jp>, haro@kgt.co.jp writes:
> | > >
> | > > >
> | > > >Section "ServerFlags"
> | > > >        Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off"
> | > > >EndSection
> | > >
> | > > That also works, and avoids four hald processes on the system, so
> | > > I prefer this fix.
> | > >
> | >
> | > I agree.  Especially since hald eats 100% of one of my cores (AMD64 X2)
> | > apparently doing nothing.
> | >
> | > I remade the xorg server w/o hal and am now a much happier camper.
> |
> | but many other x parts depend on hal:
> |
> | # pkg_info -xR hal
> | Information for hal-0.5.11_17:
> |
> | Required by:
> | xf86-input-keyboard-1.3.2
> | xf86-video-intel-2.5.1
> | xf86-video-vesa-2.1.0
> | xf86-input-mouse-1.4.0_3
> |
> | and these aren't optional, I think.
>
> But if xdm or other display managers are started from /etc/tty, X starts
> before hal does leaving you with an unresponsive login screen.

That was fixed for me with xorg-server-1.5.3_5,1 from Sun Feb 8 07:23:46 
2009.  At least on -stable, haven't tried it yet on -current.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA



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