> Is automounting dependent on the gnome desktop doing something? Yes, it must be running (specificall, gnome-volume-manager needs to be running) to actually automount stuff. Hal does not mount itself, it just provides information about the hardware.
> I've done a lot of this testing without any desktop running -- in > fact, on the Dapper Flight 6 I've been using to test this, running > the desktop hangs the machine (no keyboard response, no network > response, no flashing keyboard lights, have to unplug the power cord > and restart) about two times out of three, so I had to disable it. Ouch, that sounds really serious; are these bugs known in Malone? > The /dev/sda device is created correctly and mounts correctly > whether or not the hald processes are running, or indeed even if I > aptitude purge the whole hald package. Yes, hal is just required for automatically mounting them. > Is there really never going to be a way to disable polling multiple > times a second? There is a way, you need to disable the polling in e. g. /etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi, but it's not really user friendly to do that. -- hal's automount_enabled_hint causes disk to beep every few seconds https://launchpad.net/bugs/27323 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
