handbook - [5.4.2 Configuring X11] - suggesting an improvement

[Warren Block]

On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, daniele pendenza 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

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA