Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: "L. B." <lorenzo.bandieri@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kde4: no hardware info without sys-apps/hal
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 19:17:13
Message-Id: CABqumk_Ee2BXTBRoyfpJLTKzYNTQ61hYVDbqW=cRa_rMCEechg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] kde4: no hardware info without sys-apps/hal by Andrey Moshbear
1 > Now that hal is out of he portage tree and uninstalled, I've noticed
2 > that the following occur:
3 > 1) no battery info (and other ACPI doesn't fare well too)
4 > 2) Suspend key is broken; must use $sudo pm-suspend instead
5 > 3) USB hotplug is broken; device notifier is oblivious to
6 > inserted/removed USB devices
7 >
8 > Solutions?
9 >
10 > I have the same problem with my fresh xfce install (I installed gentoo
11 yesterday): no battery info, usb hotplug seems not to work. I've been
12 messing around all day long, but I wasn't able to figure out: my kernel is
13 compiled with the right things enabled, udev is ok, everything is ok. Maybe
14 I'm missing something, but my idea is that it has got to do with the absence
15 of hal.