hal not starting in diskless setup

pacija

pacija

Hi everyone,

I am successfully booting over PXE into XFCE4 desktop, but I have problems with hal, which is not starting, therefore not adding keyboard and mouse automatically when xorg.conf is not present.

Just for the test I recompiled xorg-server without hal and set AutoAddDevices on in xorg.conf, and in this setup my test machine works well. However, this does not solve my production problem because I have ~100 machines with different hardware configurations (video cards, mouses, keyboards etc.), and I would rather avoid creating dhcp reservations and /conf/default/IP.ADD.RE.SS/etc/X11/xorg.conf for all of them.

Any idea how to make hal work in PXE diskless setup?
 
Of course, that is my goal. Without xorg.conf my videocard gets probed well, but things that need hal (mouse and keyboard) are not recognized.
 
If you built xorg-server without HAL, that's effectively the same as setting AutoAddDevices off.

xorg-server does not need it. Keyboards, even multiple and hot-attached keyboards, just work. Unless you've disabled kbdmux(4), maybe. Mice are automatically detected. USB mice go through devd(8), so it should be enabled and have a standard devd.conf(5).
 
Indeed, moused_enable and recompiling xorg without hal made my mouse work, which was my main goal.

As for hal, it needs /var/cache/hald/ directory, as well as some dirs in /var/lib in order to start. Hopefully I will have time to investigate which exactly they are, and if so I will post them later.
 
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