Harry Putnam wrote: > When I noticed the thread here about `hal' that started a while back > it caused me enough curiousity that i ran eix -Ic ^hal$ but found I > have no `hal' installed. > > I have keep up with updates somewhat better than usual the last few > months but don't remember when hal went away... I do remember having > some trouble with keyboard/mouse, and hal not starting, but that was > quite a while back. > > I don't remember making a conscious effort to get rid of hal either. > > Evey thing seems to work ok here. I do notice a problem on bootup > where the keyboard/mouse I have attached to a KVM does not become > usable until AFTER the grub prompt. Somewhere between there and the > appearance of the login prompt it becomes usable. But that has gone > on at least a yr if not longer. > > So is there something wrong if I have no hal installed. Is it just > not necessary or has it been replaced? > > > >
I think it goes to show that a computer can work fine without hal. Somebody nudge the KDE folks. Doesn't KDE require hal? Dale :-) :-)
