>> I recently pushed a new (alpha quality) backend for the
>> media:/ kioslave which uses udev/pmount and therefore does not rely on
>> HAL.  I encourage developers here to try it out!
>
> Tim, FYI:
>
> While rebuilding tdebase for another reason, I forgot to set
> -DWITH_TDEHWLIB=OFF. The build failed with this:
<snip>

I set the WITH_TDEHWLIB default setting to OFF in GIT hash ccc23cb; it
should not have been enabled by default.

The build failure is probably related to the fact that the new backend
relies on a rather large and new library in tdelibs--you would need to
rebuild and reinstall tdelibs before the new backend will build in
tdebase.

Tim