From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PBHEP-0007co-Va for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 01:24:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EED5FE0881; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 01:23:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp-relay2.uniserve.ca (smtp-relay2i.uniserve.ca [216.113.194.207]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA2A1E0881 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 01:23:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ip-27.57.99.216.dsl-cust.ca.inter.net ([216.99.57.27] helo=ca.inter.net) by smtp-relay2.uniserve.ca with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PBHDc-0005pm-7X for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:23:53 -0700 Received: by ca.inter.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:23:51 -0400 Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:23:51 -0400 From: Philip Webb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] scrapping hal Message-ID: <20101028012351.GC4302@ca.inter.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <8739rribwc.fsf@newsguy.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8739rribwc.fsf@newsguy.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Sender-Info: purslow@ca.inter.net X-Scanner: OK. Scanned. X-Uniserve-Spam-Score: 0.1 1 (/) X-Uniserve-Spam-Report: Content analysis details: (0.1 points) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.1 RDNS_DYNAMIC Delivered to trusted network by host with dynamic-looking rDNS X-Archives-Salt: bb2e2a04-2adc-4376-aad2-ba438b5c51a8 X-Archives-Hash: 6e87d80067728c3d0133ed8959c2dadc 101027 Harry Putnam wrote: > I wondered if there is some kind of guide to scrap hal. >From my notes, having done it on 2 desktops machines + 1 netbook : To remove Hal : drop '-hal' flag, add 'udev' flag ; update to Xorg-server >= 1.8.0 -drivers >= 1.8 Xinit >= 1.2.1 + drivers ; re-merge Exo Thunar ; delete refs to 'mouse' 'keyboard' in xorg.conf ; remove 'hald' fr /etc/runlevels/default/ . IIRC Hal is needed to the KDE desktop, but not for most KDE apps; I use Fluxbox + quite a few KDE apps; Exo Thunar belong to Xfce. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca