On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 06:16:51PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Alex Samad <a...@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 >>
>
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