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 1N4Kgj-0007NX-77 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:36:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 379D4E094E; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:36:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f224.google.com (mail-gx0-f224.google.com [209.85.217.224]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EFA6E094E for ; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:36:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk24 with SMTP id 24so10667873gxk.6 for ; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:36:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=FPPjB53NQEKnJ/pxxZ7g+QhSfhl8iebmTuJAKGi0/W8=; b=IdiIWFzrFPcc00kodJy5JjV2WG7Fe3NVADOmT3AOXoANVdHL1TI55d2NLZ21SmIeg5 OsvXtl7HCXachop6+kLZMH3U1reThPN4PR1+WOjo4US46GVdA+Ls/m5IiqgTwilBGJ18 PAaHaWwNDs1zppSMoYuf4xqsWIO0rk5e8VW/Y= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=cjkTyi9zg7dI4hjFvvhIVZLvBeYaj+Ortk4p5Fa8A8CHHW3VnzTpY/pQuKM3FK2HSU HSSIp9AFm4tJqP1wHcba1KyK1Y7n/SiFsXgPbZpsQ+w56tlhttPlZ7JeDT+ntEg25XEO 2aWCV2tmOopZSk3wUxtsPXb45glGMv/ZcCuXs= Received: by 10.90.57.5 with SMTP id f5mr7241731aga.18.1257021399815; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:36:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-0-115-242.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.115.242]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 15sm1897183yxh.58.2009.10.31.13.36.36 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:36:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4AEC9FD2.4090003@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:36:34 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20091007 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] More about hal References: <87y6mrb9sn.fsf@newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: <87y6mrb9sn.fsf@newsguy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a0970f29-2bf1-4e23-99d4-edb1f9b7bd63 X-Archives-Hash: af1fd31f075815fded3b664dd3851d99 Harry Putnam wrote: > When I noticed the thread here about `hal' that started a while back > it caused me enough curiousity that i ran eix -Ic ^hal$ but found I > have no `hal' installed. > > I have keep up with updates somewhat better than usual the last few > months but don't remember when hal went away... I do remember having > some trouble with keyboard/mouse, and hal not starting, but that was > quite a while back. > > I don't remember making a conscious effort to get rid of hal either. > > Evey thing seems to work ok here. I do notice a problem on bootup > where the keyboard/mouse I have attached to a KVM does not become > usable until AFTER the grub prompt. Somewhere between there and the > appearance of the login prompt it becomes usable. But that has gone > on at least a yr if not longer. > > So is there something wrong if I have no hal installed. Is it just > not necessary or has it been replaced? > > > > I think it goes to show that a computer can work fine without hal. Somebody nudge the KDE folks. Doesn't KDE require hal? Dale :-) :-)