Re: X11 without HAL: "DontZap" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf doesn't work anymore
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:58:12 +0200
Dirk <noisyb@gmx.net> wrote:
> Avi Greenbury wrote:
...
> > What is the 'best part of Linux' that HAL neglects?
...
> The ability to mount devices myself, or not.
This is just wrong; HAL *doesn't automount anything* on its own. It
merely passes information to a *volume manager*, which can be configured
to do whatever you want. I run HAL, and I've never had devices
automounted. When I tried once more, before firing off this message, lo
and behold my USB key did indeed automount, but I investigated and
realized that it was some component of xfce that was doing it. When I
unchecked the box "Settings / Removable Drives and Media / Storage /
Mount removable drives when hot-plugged", the old behavior returned.
> The ability to do what I want.
Again, *what* exactly do you want to do that HAL is confounding? I'm
also not that crazy about dependency creep, I'd prefer to keep large,
complex, poorly documented stuff off my system, and I haven't yet
really wrapped my head around editing xml fdi files, but I haven't
actually been hampered much in any tangible way yet. Well, except for
this, which may somehow be HAL related:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=533863
Celejar
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