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. > > I have definately compiled kdebase with the hal use flag - is there > something else I need to recompile? > > USE="hal" emerge -p --newuse world > > doesn't give me anything kde related. > > I can't find much help on this, so any tips would be appreciated. > > thanks, > -- > Iain Buchanan <iain at netspace dot net dot au> > > Pascal is a language for children wanting to be naughty. > -- Dr. Kasi Ananthanarayanan > Hi, Assume you have "sys-apps/hal" installed. Have you started it-/etc/init.d/hald start (rc-update add hald default). As there's a close relation between kernel version & dbus,hal,ivman versions, not all combinations work, watch out. HTH.Rumen
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