[gentoo-user] Re: hal?

2011-06-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/22/2011 05:03 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: My question is: How can I identify _installed_ packages, which needs hal? I find that the most reliable way is: emerge -pv --depclean sys-apps/hal

[gentoo-user] Re: hal greps my USB printer - help !

2009-10-29 Thread walt
On 10/29/2009 08:11 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, on one of my identical (believed) machines, hal greps the USB printer and disables CUPS... Could you be more specific about 'disables'? I use an HP USB printer on a machine running cupsd and hal, and it works perfectly:

[gentoo-user] Re: HAL crashes after connecting removable media

2009-10-07 Thread James
Sebastian Beßler webmaster at darkmetatron.de writes: I don't now since when exactly as I don't use removable media so often, but now my HAL-daemon crashes after connecting a removable media. do you have the latest HAL version? Mine is 0.5.12_rc1-r8 with KDE4 and recently it was acting

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: HAL crashes after connecting removable media

2009-10-07 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 07.10.2009 15:40, schrieb James: do you have the latest HAL version? I had the latest HAL version sys-apps/hal-0.5.13-r2 I run ~amd64 Mine is 0.5.12_rc1-r8 with KDE4 and recently it was acting peculilar until the upgrade to 0.5.12_rc1-r8. I downgraded to 0.5.12_rc1-r8 and now

[gentoo-user] Re: hal requires cryptsetup!? will hal work with loop-aes?

2009-04-06 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
ABCD wrote: I'm not sure if you will need sys-fs/cryptsetup for your setup, but I think you may have gotten confused over the difference between USE and IUSE. IUSE is a variable set by an ebuild to tell portage (or your PM of choice) that this package supports certain USE flags. See

[gentoo-user] Re: hal requires cryptsetup!? will hal work with loop-aes?

2009-04-05 Thread ABCD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: BACKGROUND: Am preparing for the xorg update, and hal wants to bring in cryptsetup: ('ebuild', '/', 'sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.0.5-r1', 'merge') pulled in by =sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.0.5 required by ('ebuild', '/',

[gentoo-user] Re: hal + xorg hell part 2

2009-02-22 Thread ABCD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'm still struggling with xorg + hal Now, my PS/2 keyboard translates certain keys in a strange way, e.g. 'insert' 'home' 'PgUp' 'PgDn' etc. Xorg.0.log contains the following lines which I don't understand (II)

[gentoo-user] Re: hal - what's the benefit of using it

2009-02-05 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 05 February 2009 00:05:55 Paul Hartman wrote: Almost the same as mine, except I still have lots of font stuff in my xorg.conf -- do those go somewhere else? or are they unneeded in xorg.conf at all

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: hal - what's the benefit of using it

2009-02-05 Thread Man Shankar
On 08:40 Thu 05 Feb , Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 05 February 2009 00:05:55 Paul Hartman wrote: Almost the same as mine, except I still have lots of font stuff in my xorg.conf -- do those go somewhere else? or are they

[gentoo-user] Re: hal - what's the benefit of using it

2009-02-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, having had some problems with recent xorg version my question is what are the benefits (if any) of building packages with the 'hal' use flag (i.e. adding 'hal' to US='...' in /etc/make.conf) The benefit for me is that I plug my USB flash stick in my PC and it pops

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: hal - what's the benefit of using it

2009-02-04 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: The benefit for me is that I plug my USB flash stick in my PC and it pops up in my desktop without me needing to enter voodoo console commands to mount it. +1 That and... this is my xorg.conf : Section Module

[gentoo-user] Re: hal - what's the benefit of using it

2009-02-04 Thread James
Helmut Jarausch jarausch at igpm.rwth-aachen.de writes: having had some problems with recent xorg version my question is what are the benefits (if any) of building packages with the 'hal' use flag (i.e. adding 'hal' to US='...' in /etc/make.conf) This link is short and reasonable.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: hal - what's the benefit of using it

2009-02-04 Thread Hazen Valliant-Saunders
Um, you are using the HAL weather you want to or not, it's not really an option! The HARDWARE ABSTRACTION LAYER with respect to good ol linux happens to be your kernel and it's drivers. The bare metal registers within which all those bits are moved is called the hardware; all those configuration

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: hal - what's the benefit of using it

2009-02-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
Please don't top post on this list. It's considered rude. You are talking about HAL, an abstract concept. The OP is talking about hal, a definite package - sys-apps/hal. Recent X.org uses it to autoconfigure input devices on startup On Wednesday 04 February 2009 18:34:28 Hazen

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: hal - what's the benefit of using it

2009-02-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:29 AM, Norberto Bensa nbe...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: The benefit for me is that I plug my USB flash stick in my PC and it pops up in my desktop without me needing to enter voodoo console commands to mount

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: hal - what's the benefit of using it

2009-02-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 05 February 2009 00:05:55 Paul Hartman wrote: Almost the same as mine, except I still have lots of font stuff in my xorg.conf -- do those go somewhere else? or are they unneeded in xorg.conf at all these days? Fonts are complicated :-) IIRC, the older bit mapped X fonts go in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: hal - what's the benefit of using it

2009-02-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 05 February 2009 00:05:55 Paul Hartman wrote: Almost the same as mine, except I still have lots of font stuff in my xorg.conf -- do those go somewhere else? or are they unneeded in xorg.conf at all these days? Fonts are

[gentoo-user] Re: hal-0.5.11-r1 and keyboard layout and input issues

2008-08-25 Thread Liviu Andronic
Oh, I forgot to post the errors X generates at startup: The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: Warning: Multiple names for keycode 211 Using I211, ignoring AB11 expected keysym, got XF86AudioEject: line 2232 of inet Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X

[gentoo-user] Re: HAL: how to prohibit mounting certain partitions

2007-09-01 Thread Marc Blumentritt
Eric Martin schrieb: If you'd like R/W acccess to it you need to emerge captive-ntfs, I did a search and all I can find is ntfs-3g. Does anyone know if captive turned into this? I did a quick search on the webpage and couldn't find anything. Also, you'll need FUSE w/both. Captive is the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hal, d-bus, automount, premissions

2005-10-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 8 Oct 2005 08:37:31 +0200, Andreas Karlsson wrote: Naturally, because you are mounting as root. fstab-sync is evil anyway, mounting with pmount is much nicer, and mounts as the current user. I´ll give pmount a try. Does that mean I can get rid of ivman? Which desktop are you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hal, d-bus, automount, premissions [SOVED]

2005-10-09 Thread Andreas Karlsson
On Sunday 09 October 2005 16.35, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 8 Oct 2005 08:37:31 +0200, Andreas Karlsson wrote: Naturally, because you are mounting as root. fstab-sync is evil anyway, mounting with pmount is much nicer, and mounts as the current user. I´ll give pmount a try. Does

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hal, d-bus, automount, premissions

2005-10-08 Thread Andreas Karlsson
On Friday 07 October 2005 23.36, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 20:05:22 +0200, Andreas Karlsson wrote: Thanks. I tried it, but it didn´t work. ivman is running, but whenever I plug in a USB-device, it is not automounted. Are you running ivman as a user as well as root? ISTR you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hal, d-bus, automount, premissions

2005-10-08 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Sat, 8 Oct 2005 08:37:31 +0200 Andreas Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 07 October 2005 23.36, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 20:05:22 +0200, Andreas Karlsson wrote: Thanks. I tried it, but it didn´t work. ivman is running, but whenever I plug in a USB-device, it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hal, d-bus, automount, premissions

2005-10-08 Thread Andreas Karlsson
On Saturday 08 October 2005 09.03, Rumen Yotov wrote: Warning: don't use this with vfat-fs (USB-pens) as it can damage them - sync option used (workaround needed, then things work). Search/read for more info, my experince here. Thank you for the input. I think I´ll try pmount, and if that

[gentoo-user] Re: Hal, d-bus, automount, premissions

2005-10-07 Thread Remy Blank
Andreas Karlsson wrote: I am getting quite frustrated over such a simple thing. Now, I have three USB storage devices: a USB flash disk, a mobile phone and a camera. I want those to automount with my users permissions. They now mounts under /media/usbdisk with root permissions. Where on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hal, d-bus, automount, premissions

2005-10-07 Thread Andreas Karlsson
On Friday 07 October 2005 16.09, Remy Blank wrote: Andreas Karlsson wrote: The fstab is updated by hald. And the entry looks ok (it has the user option), except that I would remove sync for flash disks, as it will kill them in no time. Yes, I did notice that hald is adding the line to fstab.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hal, d-bus, automount, premissions

2005-10-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 20:05:22 +0200, Andreas Karlsson wrote: Thanks. I tried it, but it didn´t work. ivman is running, but whenever I plug in a USB-device, it is not automounted. Are you running ivman as a user as well as root? ISTR you are supposed to run two copies. If I do a 'mount