| 1 |
Harry Putnam wrote: |
| 2 |
> When I noticed the thread here about `hal' that started a while back |
| 3 |
> it caused me enough curiousity that i ran eix -Ic ^hal$ but found I |
| 4 |
> have no `hal' installed. |
| 5 |
> |
| 6 |
> I have keep up with updates somewhat better than usual the last few |
| 7 |
> months but don't remember when hal went away... I do remember having |
| 8 |
> some trouble with keyboard/mouse, and hal not starting, but that was |
| 9 |
> quite a while back. |
| 10 |
> |
| 11 |
> I don't remember making a conscious effort to get rid of hal either. |
| 12 |
> |
| 13 |
> Evey thing seems to work ok here. I do notice a problem on bootup |
| 14 |
> where the keyboard/mouse I have attached to a KVM does not become |
| 15 |
> usable until AFTER the grub prompt. Somewhere between there and the |
| 16 |
> appearance of the login prompt it becomes usable. But that has gone |
| 17 |
> on at least a yr if not longer. |
| 18 |
> |
| 19 |
> So is there something wrong if I have no hal installed. Is it just |
| 20 |
> not necessary or has it been replaced? |
| 21 |
> |
| 22 |
> |
| 23 |
> |
| 24 |
> |
| 25 |
|
| 26 |
I think it goes to show that a computer can work fine without hal. |
| 27 |
Somebody nudge the KDE folks. Doesn't KDE require hal? |
| 28 |
|
| 29 |
Dale |
| 30 |
|
| 31 |
:-) :-) |
Archives