Re: [gentoo-user] What's with this hald thing and why can't I rip CDs any more?

[Naiani Rosa de Barros]

Forgot to mention: about the problem with ripping CDs, and if it sort
of works when you start hald, I'd say you should try re-emerging it.
Maybe something got corrupted somehow, or is just outdated.

Good luck!

On Jan 9, 2008 12:54 AM, Naiani Rosa de Barros
<naiani.princess@×××××.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Hald is, if I'm not wrong, the daemon for HAL, Hardware Abstraction
> Layer, it's an interface used to ease communication between software
> and hardware of your computer. It keeps info from your hardware so
> it's easier to access/modify them at any time, including new devices
> that you might connect.
>
> http://wlug.org.nz/HAL
>
> =)
>
> Naiani
>
>
> On Jan 8, 2008 9:37 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
> > I went to rip a few CDs today. It used to work. It's always worked .
> > It's worked for years it worked.
> >
> > Today it doesn't work....
> >
> > First problem is apps don't see the CDs. Running sound-juicer in a
> > terminal mentioned hald might not be running. I look in rc-update and
> > find hald. I start it. sound-juicer works, sort of. It starts ripping,
> > eventually says it finished, but when I look at the directory when the
> > flac files are supposed to be I get maybe 2 out of 10. The rest are
> > all 0 bytes. No error messages at all.
> >
> > How could I rip flac files by hand and get more info?
> >
> > What is hald and when did it show up as necessary. I watched movies
> > using xine the other day and didn't need it. Is this a
> > Gnome/sound-juicer thing or something more global?
> >
> > What's wrong with ripping?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mark
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> >
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