[systemd-devel] Communicating need

Scott James Remnant scott at netsplit.com
Mon May 16 18:33:46 PDT 2011


On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Lennart Poettering
<lennart at poettering.net>wrote:

> > It takes about 5-6s for udev to run input_id on the keyboard + touchpad,
> and
> > thus for them to be available to X.
>
> How come this takes so long?
>
> Does this actually delay X? Nromally X should be fine without kbd/mouse
> and then be able to make use of it the moment it becomes available?
>
> Well, X is sitting there with a nice screen that the user can't use because
the keyboard and touchpad don't work yet ... so no, it doesn't delay X, it
delays the user experience ;-)

Scott
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