Well, I no longer get the errors, though the solution doesn't satisfy me. The errors went away after I removed my firewire pci card from my computer. Now everything else works except the sound, which I had assumed was caused by the same hal problem, but apparently I was mistaken.
On the firewire card it says "Radius inc. firewire pci 2330", but in the computer it would show up as Texas Instruments LYNX Compatible 1394 something or other... Just to make sure it was the firewire card I put the card back into the computer and the errors came back again. This makes me sad, as I had hoped to use my external DVD burner with ubuntu. -- hal-device-manager does not load https://launchpad.net/bugs/31517 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
