HAL trouble

[Jaap Boender <jaapb%kerguelen.org@localhost>]

Hi all,

Running KDE with HAL, I'm having some problems - at some point during 
my session, the mouse will stop responding and screen updates only 
seem to be done sporadically (I get the impression that sometimes I 
actually have to press a key for updates to happen...)

I think HAL is involved because a) disabling it seems to be a 
workaround and b) at the point the problems occur, hal becomes 
unkillable.

Given that without HAL, things like the battery monitor do not work 
(slightly annoying on a laptop), I'd really like to investigate this problem 
a bit more closely.

Does anyone have hints, leads or advice?

best,

  Jaap

P.S. I'm running this: NetBSD marion-dufresne.kerguelen.org 7.99.18 
NetBSD 7.99.18 (MARION-DUFRESNE) #3: Wed Jun  3 14:36:43 BST 2015  
jaapb@marion-
dufresne.kerguelen.org:/usr/obj/sys/arch/amd64/compile/MARION-
DUFRESNE amd64

with radeon drm-enabled graphics.

-- 
"Then I'll tell the truth. We're allowed to do that in emergencies."