On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 10:35:35PM -0500, Greg Wallace 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.
I have disabled it, because it is very annoying, and I could not find any documentation how to disable the annoying behavior. I have not seen any breakage from disabling yet.
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.
And even for this XML, I could not find documentation.
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.
Oh, automounting a (CD|DVD)-RW that you want to burn, isn't a very good idea, either :-((
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.
Oh, and you don't want to _mount_ the floppy if you want to create a boot-floppy. I find automounting removable media like dvd/cd/floppy a very error prone procedure :-((