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
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
On Saturday, April 22, 2006 @ 8:24 AM, Istvan Gabor wrote: provided 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
Hello Greg and others:
I think this is not OT at all. This hal/hald/automount issue in Linux/SUSE if very confusing. It might work well if you are fine with all the defaults. But if you want to change something it becomes a pain.
I guess there should be a graphical interface where one can set:
1. What devices she/he wants to be automounted. Eg. I don't like if optical devices (CD/DVD) are automounted but it is a good thing for USB-devices (pendrive).
2. The mountpoint (name) of the mounted device. Eg. I prefer the name 'pendrive' to 'FlashDisk' for my USB pendrive but if I enable automounting it always becomes 'FlashDisk'. I also cant't stand the name 'cdrecorder' (SUSE's default).
Just having those 2 options would be a giant step forward. Anyone wanting to "get fancy" could always fall back on the XML code, but this would at least allow for basic tuning of HAL.
If HAL guys don't provide such a tool then SUSE people should
Either way would be ok, but it seems like it would be something that should be integrated into YAST, at least at some point in time.
Cheers, IG
Greg Wallace