Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:06:19 +0200 From: Jonathan McKeown <j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgraded to 8, no mouse is broken Message-ID: <200912111006.19229.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <20091211071706.811a0758.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20091211025508.GA4357@jesters-court.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0912102130360.8253@wonkity.com> <20091211071706.811a0758.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Friday 11 December 2009 08:17:06 Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:38:04 -0700 (MST), Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.co= m>=20 wrote: > > Please > > see the Handbook section on X11 configuration instead: > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html > > Just a side question: 5.4.2 Note 2 =A7 5 states: > > You will have to reboot your machine to force > hald to read this file. > > which refers to /usr/local/etc/hal/fdi/policy/x11-input.fdi > that re-enables Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to kill X. > > Is it really, really needed to reboot the machine? Can't > HAL just be restarted? I always thought "reboot to make > a minor setting work" was the domain of "Windows"... At the risk of me-tooing, I also wondered about this. It seems insane to have to restart the OS and hardware to reread a config=20 file.
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