On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 06:16:51PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Alex Samad <alex@samad.com.au> [2009 Jul 16 17:46 -0500]: > > HAL has been a pain for me, because of my laptop and my need to attach > > things to the laptop whilst its on, thus hal mount things all over the > > place and does things the system wasn't doing before. > > I'm puzzled by this and HAL does not mount *anything* on my machines > until I tell it to. I am using KDE 3.5 and 4.2 and in neither case > will a device be mounted automatically, I must initiate it on my own. > It seems as though automounting of the type I understand you describing > is a desktop environment issue? I did no special configuration of HAL > to acheive this either. well, when I installed HAL, i noticed when I docked my laptop in its docking station I suddenly had the extra drive mounted on /medi/... and when I pluggde in usb keys they started to appear on the desktop as well I associated this with HAL - as it was the last package I installed before these things started to happen. I stopped them by placing a efi file to tell it to ignore these devices, I already have udev rules and fstab user rules to allow me to mount them as needed. > > OTOH, HAL along with udev is invaulable to me for making a USB to > serial adapter available without issue or a USB sound card I use for > amateur radio work. It's just there once it's plugged in with no > writing of arcane rules or trying to determine kernel device names by > diggin through /var/log/syslog when some new device is plugged in for > the first time. I have written 1 line udev rules to handle my devices written once and thats all i need > > I'm no HAL fanboi as I really don't care if it's HAL, udev, or the > kernel making my life easier and more convenient. I am all for convenience, but I am also for the right to choose, sounds like HAL is not really needed for X, so it should be a recommends and not a depends. Alex PS - upon looking at the preferences I posted earlier looks like I was wrong, its all commented out > > - Nate >> > -- "I'm so pleased to be able to say hello to Bill Scranton. He's one of the great Pennsylvania political families." - George W. Bush 09/15/2003 Drexel Hill, Penn.
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