From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 5 18:39:28 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6873C106566C for ; Fri, 5 Feb 2010 18:39:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (ns0.blackend.org [82.227.222.164]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4A758FC14 for ; Fri, 5 Feb 2010 18:39:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gothic.blackend.org (gothic.blackend.org [192.168.1.203]) by abigail.blackend.org (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id o15IdPA6045821; Fri, 5 Feb 2010 19:39:25 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marc@abigail.blackend.org) Received: from gothic.blackend.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gothic.blackend.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o15IdPRY001338; Fri, 5 Feb 2010 19:39:25 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marc@gothic.blackend.org) Received: (from marc@localhost) by gothic.blackend.org (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id o15IdPBL001337; Fri, 5 Feb 2010 19:39:25 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marc) Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 19:39:25 +0100 From: Marc Fonvieille To: daniele Message-ID: <20100205183925.GA1275@gothic.blackend.org> References: <4B6BF9C0.8070706@yahoo.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B6BF9C0.8070706@yahoo.fr> X-Useless-Header: blackend.org X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 8.0-RC2 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: handbook - [5.4.2 Configuring X11] - suggesting an improvement X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:39:28 -0000 On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 11:58:08AM +0100, daniele wrote: > > > > >/ > > />/ I was reading the section 5.4.2 of the handbook. In the 2nd and 3rd Notes, > > />/ after the fdi file code, one reads > > />/ > > />/ "You will have to reboot your machine to force *hald* to read this file." > > />/ > > />/ I think this is not the most efficient solution to let hald read again the > > />/ file. > > />/ > > />/ Restarting just the hal start script wouldn't be enough ? > > / > > Not always: > > > > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=595146+0+archive/2009/freebsd-doc/20091101.freebsd-doc > > > Hi, > > Thanks for answering. That seems a bit "strange". The specifically > reported "problems" in the end are a mouse not working after the restart > but the author did not specify the number of machines he made the test > on and if other problems occur. It would be interesting to know a bit > more about this (I mean if it happens frequently and if other problems > occur). I changed the keyboard layout 1-2 times but got no problems here > restarting the script. > I think the problem is not the number of machines tested but the fact it just did not work for some users/hardware. This is a problem since people may think the issue is coming from their fdi script when it's just the hald daemon unable to reread a file. The proposed solution works for everyone. Maybe we can rewrite the part with a mention of rc.d HAL restart and then with a note telling "if it does not work , you will have to reboot your box... blahblah". -- Marc