On Wed 09 Sep 2015 at 11:24:32 -0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Brian (a...@cityscape.co.uk): > > > Installing hal, hal-info, libhal1 and libhal1-storage cures it for me > > but you seem to have a more diverse set of issues. > > > > For some reason which I cannot remember I got the debs from a Ubuntu > > PPA. Maybe the Wheezy ones didn't work for me. > > I used to have HAL on lenny and squeeze. When I first upgraded wheezy > on my laptop, it wouldn't come back up when the lid was reopened. > Removing HAL (deprecated in favour of udev) fixed it. I can't see hal > in jessie but it is in sid. Is that because there's a fresh > incarnation, or is it just a survivalist?
My understanding is that HAL has gone from Debian, never to return. The sid package is for the unofficial m68k port only.
