Am 01.05.2011 15:58, schrieb Julien Cristau:
> 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

Xorg seems to use libhal_ctx_init() in connect_and_register() and we
ship
http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/hal/0.5.14-5/02_libhal_dont_check_running.patch

So it *should* work.

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