On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 20:51 +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > Robert Noland wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 20:24 +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > >> Oliver Lehmann wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I've used to start my login manager with /etc/ttys for years now (After I > >>> considered myself became to lazy to type startx). > >>> > >>> After yesterdays xorg upgrade I've noticed, that the login manager which > >>> comes up right after going to multiuser has no working mouse or keyboard > >>> support. This is probably because the login manager gets started by > >>> /sbin/init which uses getttyent which parses /etc/ttys. This all happens > >>> before hald is being started which is the problem here. > >> /etc/ttys is the very last thing in the boot process. > >> > >>> So the solution seems to be to drop/remove login manager startups > >>> from /etc/ttys and move over to rc.d startup. > >> It's much more likely that hald isn't working properly. Even if hald > >> started late, as soon as it started, your mouse and keyboard would > >> start working as soon as hald detects them (that's the whole point > >> of using hald, runtime detection). > > > > I think the root of the issue here is that X isn't able to establish a > > connection to hald at startup and does not retry. ... > > This implies to me that hald forks before it is connectable. > This sounds rather annoying.
I'm just kinda shooting from the hip here, but I think it is that hald registers with dbus. Once xorg has been able to figure out how to talk to hald via dbus it is fine... robert. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
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