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From: Naiani Rosa de Barros <naiani.princess@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What's with this hald thing and why can't I rip CDs any more?
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 03:54:33
Message-Id: 9fde06020801081954x3a8600b1ua122608ddbfe2fe4@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] What's with this hald thing and why can't I rip CDs any more? by Mark Knecht
1 Hi!
2
3 Hald is, if I'm not wrong, the daemon for HAL, Hardware Abstraction
4 Layer, it's an interface used to ease communication between software
5 and hardware of your computer. It keeps info from your hardware so
6 it's easier to access/modify them at any time, including new devices
7 that you might connect.
8
9 http://wlug.org.nz/HAL
10
11 =)
12
13 Naiani
14
15 On Jan 8, 2008 9:37 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
16 > I went to rip a few CDs today. It used to work. It's always worked .
17 > It's worked for years it worked.
18 >
19 > Today it doesn't work....
20 >
21 > First problem is apps don't see the CDs. Running sound-juicer in a
22 > terminal mentioned hald might not be running. I look in rc-update and
23 > find hald. I start it. sound-juicer works, sort of. It starts ripping,
24 > eventually says it finished, but when I look at the directory when the
25 > flac files are supposed to be I get maybe 2 out of 10. The rest are
26 > all 0 bytes. No error messages at all.
27 >
28 > How could I rip flac files by hand and get more info?
29 >
30 > What is hald and when did it show up as necessary. I watched movies
31 > using xine the other day and didn't need it. Is this a
32 > Gnome/sound-juicer thing or something more global?
33 >
34 > What's wrong with ripping?
35 >
36 > Thanks,
37 > Mark
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40 >
41 >
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