KDE4 and input events stalled

[Robert Noland]

On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 21:18 -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> >>>>   * If I start kdm from /etc/ttys, I get a blank
> >>>>     screen on startup.  If I start it from a root
> >>>>     login, it works okay for the first login.
> >>> This sounds more like it is waiting on hal/dbus to start up than
> >>> anything.
> > 
> > So, basically X should wait on hal/dbus t become ready. 
> 
> Looking at the code, this might be impossible.
> 
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/hal does some very strange
> gyrations to delay its own start until after
> at least one getty process has started.  That would
> make it highly improbable that hal can start before X
> if X is being started from /etc/ttys.
> 
> I'm not familiar enough with hal to know why it might
> want to do this.  Any ideas?

It's ok for hal to start later... It's dbus that has to be alive.  As
long as dbus is up, X will wait around on hal to show up for a bit.

robert.

> Tim
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Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org>
FreeBSD
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