On Wednesday 07 September 2011 22:38:07 Timothy Pearson wrote:

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> As far as I can tell, yes.  ksmserver relies on HAL at the moment, and the
> appropriate #ifdef logic has not yet been added to the code to disable
> HAL.
>
> HAL is simply a small background process that should not affect anything
> else on your system.  Why doesn't it work on Gentoo?

On Gentoo HAL cannot be installed with newer versions of udev.

> Tim

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