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#1 2009-03-17 04:44:57
- jason_f
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vl-hot, hal replacement?
Does anyone have any experiences with vl-hot?
http://developer.berlios.de/projects/vl-hot/
Sounds interesting for laptop use. Per the website it looks like a limitation is not auto-mounting the cdrom drive. no big deal there. Disabling hal on my laptop though, I seem to lose hotplugging ability at least for my usb mouse. Just curious if anyone has messed with this..
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#2 2009-03-17 05:26:39
- sand_man
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Re: vl-hot, hal replacement?
I don't see how this is a replacement for hal. hal is more than just an automounter.
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#3 2009-03-17 05:33:53
- jason_f
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Re: vl-hot, hal replacement?
I guess thats what I'm wondering is what else you would lose by not using hal.. I stumbled upon the usb hotplug in X..but wondering what else there is.
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#4 2009-03-17 07:09:46
- Rasi
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Re: vl-hot, hal replacement?
hal is a dead project. Its replaced with devicekit - that decision has been taken a year ago already and the first steps to make hal obsolete have already been done.
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#5 2009-03-17 07:11:26
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Re: vl-hot, hal replacement?
hal is a dead project. Its replaced with devicekit - that decision has been taken a year ago already and the first steps to make hal obsolete have already been done.
Hopefully it will be sooner rather than later. HAL has been a bitch to almost everyone !
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#6 2009-03-17 09:50:58
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Re: vl-hot, hal replacement?
that decision has been taken a year ago already and the first steps to make hal obsolete have already been done.
Such as making it a hard dependency for xorg. 
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#7 2009-03-17 09:57:44
- Rasi
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Re: vl-hot, hal replacement?
Rasi wrote:that decision has been taken a year ago already and the first steps to make hal obsolete have already been done.
Such as making it a hard dependency for xorg.
only because hal depends on policykit now 
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