Re: [gentoo-user] Avoiding HAL

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Brian Waters wrote:
> Hi there. I recently took a few months off from Gentoo to try Ubuntu
> (I heard it "just works", and that is a Good Thing) only to find that
> I'd much rather be back on Gentoo again. (The fact that Ubuntu ships
> with PulseAudio means that sound it basically broken out of the box,
> and I'm excited for Xfce 4.8.)
>
> It's been a few months since I've been around, and I'd like to know if
> HAL has been fully deprecated yet. I'd like to avoid using it if at
> all possible, since that seems to be the way of the future. So I'm
> wondering what versions of udev and X server (and any other packages,
> dbus maybe?) I need to unmask in order to get rid of the HAL
> dependency.
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> - BW
>
>
>    

I use KDE here but with KDE 4.6, hal is gone.  I use xorg 1.9 and no hal 
there.  If nothing in xfce doesn't need it, then I think it is gone.  
All this is on amd64.  I'm in the process of updating my x86 rig so I 
could answer for it in a day or so.  Give me a poke if you need a 
report.  ;-)

Keep in mind, there are still a few packages that you CAN enable hal 
on.  They are disabled here and still work fine as far as I know.  I 
haven't burned a CD/DVD yet but k3b does see the drive and all.  I would 
think it would work.  That reminds me, I need to update some backups.  o_O

Hope that helps.

Dale

:-)  :-)