Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:55:19 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: kron24 <kron24@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dbus/hal in freebsd 7.2 hangs X11 Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0909251152170.24887@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <4ABCC2AE.4060205@gmail.com> References: <20090925123222.GA1176@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu> <4ABCC2AE.4060205@gmail.com>
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On Fri, 25 Sep 2009, kron24 wrote: > Dne 25.9.2009 14:32, William Bulley napsal(a): >> According to Giuseppe Pagnoni<gpagnoni@gmail.com> on Fri, 09/25/09 at >> 03:32: >> >>> I am trying to use hal/dbus on a i386 machine with FreeBSD 7.2 (ports >>> updated to the latest tree snapshot as of yesterday), but despite >>> spending a full day looking up the handbook, faq, and google, I cannot >>> make it work properly. More specifically, when I use either xfce4 or >>> xmonad after having enabled dbus/hald in rc.conf: >>> >>> hald_enable="YES" >>> dbus_enable="YES" >>> >>> both window managers become very unresponsive and hang as if hal was >>> trying to access/mount something. For example, the terminal may take >>> *seconds* to display typed in characters and in xfce if you click on >>> the desktop icons for home directory etc., they don't open up at all >>> in the thunar file manager (they do though, if you right click on them >>> and choose 'open'). [edit] > The same problem on my test machine: > FreeBSD 8.0-RC1 > xfce-4.6.1 > xorg-7.4_2 > I usually run it without dbus+hal and it works fine. > With dbus+hal enabled (just for the sake of test) > I experienced the same hangs. It works here. Can we see your xorg.conf? When you built xorg-server, did you enable hal support? -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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