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Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> When I noticed the thread here about `hal' that started a while back |
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> it caused me enough curiousity that i ran eix -Ic ^hal$ but found I |
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> have no `hal' installed. |
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> I have keep up with updates somewhat better than usual the last few |
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> months but don't remember when hal went away... I do remember having |
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> some trouble with keyboard/mouse, and hal not starting, but that was |
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> quite a while back. |
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> I don't remember making a conscious effort to get rid of hal either. |
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> Evey thing seems to work ok here. I do notice a problem on bootup |
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> where the keyboard/mouse I have attached to a KVM does not become |
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> usable until AFTER the grub prompt. Somewhere between there and the |
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> appearance of the login prompt it becomes usable. But that has gone |
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> on at least a yr if not longer. |
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> So is there something wrong if I have no hal installed. Is it just |
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> not necessary or has it been replaced? |
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I think it goes to show that a computer can work fine without hal. |
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Somebody nudge the KDE folks. Doesn't KDE require hal? |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |