[arch-general] Removing HAL

[Ivan S. Freitas]

2010/9/10 Галымжан Кожаев <kozhayev at gmail.com>:
> Thanks for the replies. I added hal daemon to the DAEMONS list
> according to this wiki page:
> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME#Daemons_and_modules_needed_by_GNOME
> How does GNOME deal with USB flashdrive detection, etc without HAL ?

udev should take care of it. But, IMHO, it's not hal that is slowing
your boot, unless you use a very old computer.

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> 2010/9/10 Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net>
>>
>> On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 11:07 +0600, Галымжан Кожаев wrote:
>> > Hi list.
>> > Few days ago I've succesfully installed arch. It was booting really fast
>> > first time (i.e. without gnome, networkmanager, etc).
>> > After installing GNOME and some daemons, adding them to the rc.conf, the
>> > system now takes 30-40 seconds to load.
>> > I heard that HAL daemon takes a lot of time during boot and it's
>> > functionality can be replaced by udev.
>> > How could I completely remove HAL and still use GNOME without troubles? Is
>> > it possible?
>> > I have:
>> > - GNOME 2.30
>> > - xorg 1.8
>> > - hal 0.5
>>
>> You can remove HAL from DAEMONS, as GNOME doesn't use it. Only gnome-vfs
>> enabled applications can still use it, but GNOME itself doesn't contain
>> such applications anymore.
>>
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