[arch-general] Do I need HAL?

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Mon Jun 21 06:50:18 EDT 2010


On 21/06/10 20:35, Guillermo Leira wrote:
>>>>> WOW nice. So HAL is not needed anymore ?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Not for X. You may still need it for other things...
>>>>
>>>> Allan
>>>>
>>> Most notabaly KDE and Thunar
>>
>> and in gnome with gnome-power-manager to have some special keys support
>
> Hi,
>
> How can I know if I still need HAL?
>

run "/etc/rc.d/hal stop" and remove it from your DAEMONS array.  If 
stuff breaks, you needed it.

Allan


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