From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 27 19:53:41 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2008B1065712 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:53:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lehmann@ans-netz.de) Received: from avocado.salatschuessel.net (avocado.salatschuessel.net [78.111.72.186]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6B61B8FC24 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:53:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lehmann@ans-netz.de) Received: (qmail 62685 invoked by uid 89); 27 Jan 2009 19:53:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO kartoffel.salatschuessel.net) (78.111.72.187) by avocado.salatschuessel.net with SMTP; 27 Jan 2009 19:53:37 -0000 Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:53:37 +0100 From: Oliver Lehmann To: Dominic Fandrey Message-Id: <20090127205337.1d39734d.lehmann@ans-netz.de> In-Reply-To: <497F5F68.3090308@bsdforen.de> References: <20090127190217.de1802b5.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <497F5F68.3090308@bsdforen.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.6.0 (GTK+ 2.14.7; amd64-portbld-freebsd7.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xorg upgrade and /etc/ttys regression X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:53:41 -0000 Dominic Fandrey wrote: > /etc/ttys is the very last thing in the boot process. Right. But init is the utility which starts up the rc(8) boot process as this is what the init man page tells. Reading init.c it seems like /etc/rc is started before read_ttys is called but I'm not sure that everything is up and running when read_ttys is reached. > 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). But killing my xorg and having it restarted from /sbin/init automatically gives me back my keyboard and mouse. Nothing else done. -- Oliver Lehmann http://www.pofo.de/ http://wishlist.ans-netz.de/