I did as Martin suggested and all is well now!!! The hald man page still reports that --retain-privileges is valid, so that needs fixing, but now the hal works as it should, at least on my laptop.
Thanks Martin. -Chuck -- HAL bootup command is wrong (falls back to -h) https://launchpad.net/bugs/44770 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
