Bug#624398: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#624398: xserver-xorg: postinst script wants to invoke-rc.d hal on GNU/kFreeBSD, but there is no more /etc/init.d/hal
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 15:53:17 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 01.05.2011 15:34, schrieb Julien Cristau:
> > Does this mean for example that if X is running, and I kill hal, it will
> > be restarted automatically so it can tell the already running X server
> > about possible new input devices?
>
> That should be possible. But then, that depends on how Xorg is setting up and
> using the Hal D-Bus interface, e.g. if it uses dbus_bus_start_service_by_name()
> or a Ping() to auto-start hal.
> I don't know the Xorg code, so I can't tell.
>
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/tree/config/hal.c
Cheers,
Julien
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