2011/9/7 Serghei Amelian <serghei@...>: > On Wednesday 07 September 2011 22:38:07 Timothy Pearson wrote: > > [...] > >> 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 > > -- > Serghei > Yep. It's masked and I can imagine it will be hell getting it working... and I'm not really up to reinstalling my gentoo if I mess badly trying to install hal.