On Wednesday, April 19, 2006 @ 7:41 PM, Carlos Robinson wrote:
The Wednesday 2006-04-19 at 17:10 -0700, Brad Dameron wrote:
I have not found any decent documentation on this and from what I can see this daemon is just to detect changes in hardware like when you insert a cd-rom, a floppy, memory card, etc. Am I correct? And disabling this on a server should not cause any issues?
No, it would. Don't do that.
# Short-Description: HAL is a daemon for managning information about the hardware on the system # Description: HAL is a hardware abstraction layer and aims to provide a live list of devices present # in the system at any point in time. HAL tries to understand both physical devices (such # as PCI, USB) and the device classes (such as input, net and block) physical devices have, # and it allows merging of information from so called device info files specific to a device. # HAL provides a network API through D-BUS for querying devices and notifying when things # change. Finally, HAL provides some monitoring (in an unintrusive way) of devices, presently # ethernet link detection and volume mounts are monitored. This, and more, is all described # in the HAL specification #
- -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
Completely OT, but I can't resist. While it may not be a good idea to disable HAL, it certainly would have been nice if the HAL folks had provided some sort of front-end graphics module for modifying at least some of the high-level basics of this animal. As far as I can tell, if you don't want all of the defaults, get ready to start laying XML code. If this were some optional add-on app, that would be one thing, but for something that operates close to the foundation of the OS, it could use a bit more user-friendliness. The reason for this rant is that I had to modify the HAL XML code just to prevent HAL from trying to automount my floppy drive every time I booted. Now I don't know about most people, but I personally don't use my floppy each time I boot into my system. As a matter of fact, as far as I can recall, the last time I used it was to make a boot floppy, and that was a long time ago. Greg Wallace