On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 09:07 +0200, Rumen Yotov wrote: > On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 16:21 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > Hi again, > > > > The kde tryout is progressing well. However, I just tried to plug in my > > usb storage drive. Nothing happened. > > > > I found the Settings > Peripheral > storage media; and there is an > > option: > > "Enable HAL backend (No support for HAL on this system)" which is greyed > > out.
> Assume you have "sys-apps/hal" installed. > Have you started it-/etc/init.d/hald start (rc-update add hald default). sorry, in my haste I forgot to mention that, yes I have it installed and started (before I logged into kde). > As there's a close relation between kernel version & dbus,hal,ivman > versions, not all combinations work, watch out. hmm, I have linux-2.6.15-r5 (suspend2); hal 0.5.5.1-r3; dbus 0.60-r4; and ivman I've never heard of!! What do I need it for? Do you see any problems with these versions? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan <iain at netspace dot net dot au> It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs. -- Francis Bacon -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list