KDE and HAL in etch
Hi All,
I have just put etch onto a Sunblade 100. Having dealt with the "boot from CD"
problem[1] and the "mystery options in xorg.conf" problem[2] it looks as if it
will be a nice machine.
One of the nice things about etch on i386 is that if you plug in a USB stick,
then KDE notices it and asks if you want to mount it. This doesn't happen on
Sparc. I _think_ I have all the same packages installed as on my i386 machine.
I have checked the system log and note that udev is working and assigning the
USB stick to /dev/sda and /dev/sda1. I can then mount it by hand if necessary.
But KDE ignores it.
Digging into the KDE control center, and looking under Peripherals/Storage
Media/Advanced, I note that there is an option to "Enable HAL backend". But it
is grayed out, so I can't select it. On my i386 box it is greyed out but also
checked so that you can't _un-check_ it.
Is there some package I have missed out? If so, what is it? Or is it the case
that KDE on Sparc is built with HAL disabled, while on i386 it is built with
it enabled. In that case there would be nothing I could do. Is that the case?
If so, should I report it as a bug, and for what package?
Yours, plugging and praying,
Hugh
[1] cold-boot and use video=atyfb:off
[2] Option "ReferenceClock" "29.5MHz" needed in Section "Device"
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