Re: HAL

2015-12-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 29 December 2015 17:33:34 kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > One thing of note is that I installed libhal1-flash, > pepperflashplugin-nonfree and removed them while testing it out. I am > not sure if that did the trick. But now it works with google chrome > even without libhal1-flash. Google

Re: HAL

2015-12-29 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
; > Video. For that I need the computer attached to my television to run >> > Flash-player. >> > >> > I know that I can get the setup running in Wheezy. The question is >> > whether I can do so it Jessie. But the stumbling block, I think is that >>

Re: HAL

2015-12-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
repository. It contains the > >> code from https://github.com/cshorler/hal-flash. > > > > Hmm, libhal1-flash is only available for Stretch and Sid. I wonder why. > > > > Maybe you can ask Christian if he could rebuild the package for Jessie. > > I s

Re: HAL

2015-12-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
n to run > > Flash-player. > > > > I know that I can get the setup running in Wheezy. The question is > > whether I can do so it Jessie. But the stumbling block, I think is that > > I need HAL. > > May I ask what browser you are using to watch Amazon Prime Video?

Re: HAL

2015-12-28 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
ng in Wheezy. The question is whether I > can do so it Jessie. But the stumbling block, I think is that I need HAL. > May I ask what browser you are using to watch Amazon Prime Video? When I tried it in Iceweasel, I get the following error Unsupported Browser This web browser isn't compati

Re: HAL

2015-12-28 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 9:30 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: > Sven Hartge wrote: > >> But I see there is a package named libhal1-flash available from >> Christian Marillat in his deb-multimedia.org repository. It contains the >> code from https://github.com/cshorler/hal-flash. &

Re: HAL

2015-12-27 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 28 December 2015 02:30:44 Sven Hartge wrote: > Sven Hartge wrote: > > But I see there is a package named libhal1-flash available from > > Christian Marillat in his deb-multimedia.org repository. It contains the > > code from https://github.com/cshorler/hal-flash. &

Re: HAL

2015-12-27 Thread Sven Hartge
Nate Bargmann wrote: > Does the flashplugin-nonfree package in Jessie not work for you? It is > a plugin for Iceweasel/Firefox. Or do you need something else? > See also: https://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer/ The problem is not the Flash plugin, but the DRM code that is loaded from Adobe, whi

Re: HAL

2015-12-27 Thread Nate Bargmann
Lisi, Does the flashplugin-nonfree package in Jessie not work for you? It is a plugin for Iceweasel/Firefox. Or do you need something else? See also: https://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer/ - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears

Re: HAL

2015-12-27 Thread Sven Hartge
Sven Hartge wrote: > But I see there is a package named libhal1-flash available from > Christian Marillat in his deb-multimedia.org repository. It contains the > code from https://github.com/cshorler/hal-flash. Hmm, libhal1-flash is only available for Stretch and Sid. I wonder why.

Re: HAL

2015-12-27 Thread Sven Hartge
Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 28 December 2015 00:59:38 Sven Hartge wrote: >> Lisi Reisz wrote: >>> Is there any way I can install HAL in Jessie? Or do I need to wipe >>> it, and reinstall Wheezy on the box on which I need HAL? >> The real question is:

Re: HAL

2015-12-27 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 28 December 2015 00:59:38 Sven Hartge wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Is there any way I can install HAL in Jessie? Or do I need to wipe > > it, and reinstall Wheezy on the box on which I need HAL? > > The real question is: "Why do you need HAL?" > &

Re: HAL

2015-12-27 Thread Sven Hartge
Lisi Reisz wrote: > Is there any way I can install HAL in Jessie? Or do I need to wipe > it, and reinstall Wheezy on the box on which I need HAL? The real question is: "Why do you need HAL?" Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.

HAL

2015-12-27 Thread Lisi Reisz
Is there any way I can install HAL in Jessie? Or do I need to wipe it, and reinstall Wheezy on the box on which I need HAL? Lisi

Re: Hulu & HAL -- What's Really Needed to Make It Work?

2015-11-19 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Thu, 19 Nov 2015, Brian wrote: > On Thu 19 Nov 2015 at 11:02:26 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > What HAL libraries specifically are needed for Flash DRM > > authentication with Hulu? > > > > I've done a lot of searching and can find nothing that spec

Re: Hulu & HAL -- What's Really Needed to Make It Work?

2015-11-19 Thread Brian
On Thu 19 Nov 2015 at 11:02:26 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > What HAL libraries specifically are needed for Flash DRM > authentication with Hulu? > > I've done a lot of searching and can find nothing that specifically > names what is required. Most all articles are

Hulu & HAL -- What's Really Needed to Make It Work?

2015-11-19 Thread Patrick Bartek
What HAL libraries specifically are needed for Flash DRM authentication with Hulu? I've done a lot of searching and can find nothing that specifically names what is required. Most all articles are Ubuntu specific, and recommend the hal-flash stub, which won't work on my Wheezy set

Re: Running HAL and udev Simultaneously

2015-09-17 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Thu, 17 Sep 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 17 September 2015 16:51:41 Patrick Bartek wrote: > > My ISP's (Cox) mail was so problematical that I stopped using it > > years ago, and got a couple Yahoo accounts, and later a couple > > Gmail ones. > > There's your "problem". But I had no p

Re: Running HAL and udev Simultaneously

2015-09-17 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 17 September 2015 16:51:41 Patrick Bartek wrote: > My ISP's (Cox) mail was so problematical that I stopped using it years > ago, and got a couple Yahoo accounts, and later a couple Gmail ones. There's your "problem". Lisi

Re: Running HAL and udev Simultaneously

2015-09-17 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Thu, 17 Sep 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 17 September 2015 05:20:52 Patrick Bartek wrote: > > The failure to mirror started under Yahoo mail.  Changed to gmail > > hoping that would fix it.  It didn't.  So, I don't think it's the > > SMTP server.  Unless both providers have the same se

Re: Running HAL and udev Simultaneously

2015-09-17 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 17 September 2015 05:20:52 Patrick Bartek wrote: > The failure to mirror started under Yahoo mail.  Changed to gmail > hoping that would fix it.  It didn't.  So, I don't think it's the SMTP > server.  Unless both providers have the same settings.  But I'll check > my setting which I hav

Re: Running HAL and udev Simultaneously

2015-09-17 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 17 September 2015 08:34:48 Brad Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 16 Sep 2015 21:20:52 -0700 > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Hello Patrick, > > >The failure to mirror started under Yahoo mail. Changed to gmail > >hoping that would fix it. It didn't. So, I don't think it's the SMTP > >server. > >

Re: Running HAL and udev Simultaneously

2015-09-17 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 08:34:48AM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 16 Sep 2015 21:20:52 -0700 > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Hello Patrick, > > >The failure to mirror started under Yahoo mail. Changed to gmail > >hoping that would fix it. It didn

Re: Running HAL and udev Simultaneously

2015-09-17 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 16 Sep 2015 21:20:52 -0700 Patrick Bartek wrote: Hello Patrick, >The failure to mirror started under Yahoo mail. Changed to gmail >hoping that would fix it. It didn't. So, I don't think it's the SMTP >server. Gmail doesn't echo your list mail back to you. This is well known. google

Re: Running HAL and udev Simultaneously

2015-09-16 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 16 Sep 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 16 September 2015 18:46:33 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > On 09/16/2015 01:53 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > About two years ago, my original posts to the list stopped being > > > mirrored back to me. This happened spontaneously: one day I'd

Re: Running HAL and udev Simultaneously

2015-09-16 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 16 September 2015 18:46:33 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On 09/16/2015 01:53 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > About two years ago, my original posts to the list stopped being > > mirrored back to me. This happened spontaneously: one day I'd see my > > post; the next day -- literally -- I

Re: Running HAL and udev Simultanteouly

2015-09-16 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 16 Sep 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 16 September 2015 17:53:41 Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Now, out of the blue, an original post of mine gets mirrored back to > > me.  Don't know what caused it.  I didn't do anything.  Gremlins, > > maybe. > > :-)) The red highlighting of spelli

Re: Running HAL and udev Simultanteouly

2015-09-16 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 16 Sep 2015, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On 09/16/2015 01:53 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > About two years ago, my original posts to the list stopped being > > mirrored back to me. This happened spontaneously: one day I'd see > > my post; the next day -- literally -- I didn't. (Replies

Re: Running HAL and udev Simultanteouly

2015-09-16 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2015-09-16 at 10:00 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > It's a minimal HAL to satisfy the DRM in Flash. > > Thanks. I'll check it out. Maybe, I can adapt it to Wheezy. Or at > least find out what's needs to be installed to get Hulu to work. Yeah, I don&

Re: Running HAL and udev Simultanteouly

2015-09-16 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 09/16/2015 01:53 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > About two years ago, my original posts to the list stopped being > mirrored back to me. This happened spontaneously: one day I'd see my > post; the next day -- literally -- I didn't. (Replies to others' posts > showed up as they should.) Never coul

Re: Running HAL and udev Simultanteouly

2015-09-16 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 16 September 2015 17:53:41 Patrick Bartek wrote: > Now, out of the blue, an original post of mine gets mirrored back to > me.  Don't know what caused it.  I didn't do anything.  Gremlins, maybe. :-)) The red highlighting of spelling mistakes suddenly started to work in my email clie

Re: Running HAL and udev Simultanteouly

2015-09-16 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 16 Sep 2015, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Tue, 2015-09-15 at 19:17 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Yes, I know. HAL has been deprecated in Debian in favor of udev for > > about 3 or 4 years. But other distros like Ubuntu and Mint still > > use it. > > No, it

Re: Running HAL and udev Simultanteouly

2015-09-16 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 16 Sep 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 16 September 2015 02:59:27 Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Wow!  My original post.  First time that's happened in two years. > >  And I didn't do anything.  Wonder what happened? > > What do you mean? About two years ago, my original posts to the l

Re: Running HAL and udev Simultanteouly

2015-09-16 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Tue, 2015-09-15 at 19:17 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > Yes, I know. HAL has been deprecated in Debian in favor of udev for > about 3 or 4 years. But other distros like Ubuntu and Mint still use > it. No, it was removed from Ubuntu in trusty AFAICT. Looks like Mint is or was ship

Re: Running HAL and udev Simultanteouly

2015-09-16 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 16 September 2015 02:59:27 Patrick Bartek wrote: > Wow!  My original post.  First time that's happened in two years.  And > I didn't do anything.  Wonder what happened? What do you mean? Lisi

Re: Running HAL and udev Simultanteouly

2015-09-15 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Tue, 15 Sep 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 15 September 2015 22:43:38 Bartek wrote: > > My system is custom: 64-bit Wheezy, no desktop, just Openbox WM > > and LXPanel, and udev. > > > > Wondering if installing HAL as Hulu suggested would cause problems? >

Re: Running HAL and udev Simultanteouly

2015-09-15 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Tue, 15 Sep 2015, Bob Weber wrote: > I installed hal from debian in a vm with debian testing amd64. > Chrome beta no go with some error code. Won't even start hald. > Iceweasel plays the splash screen and looks like it wants to play the > program but the screen stays blank

Re: Running HAL and udev Simultanteouly

2015-09-15 Thread Patrick Bartek
u indicates that with Linux, HAL > > is needed. My system is custom: 64-bit Wheezy, no desktop, just > > Openbox WM and LXPanel, and udev. > > > > Wondering if installing HAL as Hulu suggested would cause problems? > > I have doubts that it will work anyway. > >

Re: Running HAL and udev Simultanteouly

2015-09-15 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Tue, 15 Sep 2015, Bartek wrote: > Still searching for a fix to stream TV via Hulu. Worked fine with > Chrome/pepperflash and Iceweasal/flash until about mid-July, around > the release time of Windows 10. Hulu indicates that with Linux, HAL is > needed. My system is custom: 64-bi

Re: Running HAL and udev Simultanteouly

2015-09-15 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi, On 15/09/15 23:43, Bartek wrote: > Still searching for a fix to stream TV via Hulu. Worked fine with > Chrome/pepperflash and Iceweasal/flash until about mid-July, around the > release time of Windows 10. Hulu indicates that with Linux, HAL is > needed. My system is custom: 64-bi

Re: Running HAL and udev Simultanteouly

2015-09-15 Thread Bob Weber
I installed hal from debian in a vm with debian testing amd64. Chrome beta no go with some error code. Won't even start hald. Iceweasel plays the splash screen and looks like it wants to play the program but the screen stays blank. Hald is running. I can move the mouse along the timelin

Re: Running HAL and udev Simultanteouly

2015-09-15 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 15 September 2015 22:43:38 Bartek wrote: > My system is custom: 64-bit Wheezy, no desktop, just Openbox WM > and LXPanel, and udev. > > Wondering if installing HAL as Hulu suggested would cause problems? I am running Wheezy 64 bit with both HAL and udev, and have been d

Running HAL and udev Simultanteouly

2015-09-15 Thread Bartek
Still searching for a fix to stream TV via Hulu. Worked fine with Chrome/pepperflash and Iceweasal/flash until about mid-July, around the release time of Windows 10. Hulu indicates that with Linux, HAL is needed. My system is custom: 64-bit Wheezy, no desktop, just Openbox WM and LXPanel, and

Re: pmount-hal not using labels on encrypted filesystems

2012-12-14 Thread Aidan Gauland
Michael Biebl writes: > udisks-daemon does handle luks/cryptsetup encrypted partitions but it > seems the udisks command line tool is too limited. > > Try "gvfs-mount -d /dev/foo". This should prompt you for the passphrase, > unlock and mount the file system under /media/FS_LABEL > > Can be unmoun

Re: pmount-hal not using labels on encrypted filesystems

2012-12-14 Thread Michael Biebl
On 14.12.2012 17:12, Michael Biebl wrote: > Try "gvfs-mount -d /dev/foo". This should prompt you for the passphrase, > unlock and mount the file system under /media/FS_LABEL Just in case: If you run that command from a session which has no running dbus session bus, change that command to: "dbus-l

Re: pmount-hal not using labels on encrypted filesystems

2012-12-14 Thread Michael Biebl
On 14.12.2012 10:00, Aidan Gauland wrote: > Michael Biebl writes: >> On 14.12.2012 05:06, Aidan Gauland wrote: >>> How can I fix this? Given that HAL is deprecated, I suspect there is >>> some other tool that serves the same purpose as pmount-hal that I should >&

Re: pmount-hal not using labels on encrypted filesystems

2012-12-14 Thread Aidan Gauland
Michael Biebl writes: > On 14.12.2012 05:06, Aidan Gauland wrote: >> How can I fix this? Given that HAL is deprecated, I suspect there is >> some other tool that serves the same purpose as pmount-hal that I should >> be using instead. > > yeah, hal is dead. >

Re: pmount-hal not using labels on encrypted filesystems

2012-12-13 Thread Michael Biebl
On 14.12.2012 05:06, Aidan Gauland wrote: > How can I fix this? Given that HAL is deprecated, I suspect there is > some other tool that serves the same purpose as pmount-hal that I should > be using instead. yeah, hal is dead. You might try "udisks --mount" instead. -- Wh

pmount-hal not using labels on encrypted filesystems

2012-12-13 Thread Aidan Gauland
When I mount a filesystem on an encrypted partition with pmount-hal, it just mounts it on /media/usbdisk instead of using the filesystem's label to name the mount point, as it does with unencrypted filesystems. For example, $ pmount-hal /dev/sdb1 Enter passphrase for /dev/sdb1: /dev/m

hal and warnings from X

2012-07-25 Thread peasthope
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/10/msg00623.html From: Kelly Clowers Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 06:09:20 -0700 > Hal was fundamentally a good idea, but had some implementation > problems that cause them to eventually replace it with direct libudev > access and upower and udisks

Re: Problems after installing network-manager (possibly because of hal?)

2012-05-02 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 02 May 2012 11:49:17 -0300, Guido Martínez wrote: > I'm running debian 6.0.4 for amd64, with XFCE. I recently installed > network-manager so I could use my Wi-Fi card, this installed hal as a > dependency. Wouldn't have been better to get "wicd" instea

Problems after installing network-manager (possibly because of hal?)

2012-05-02 Thread Guido Martínez
Hi, I'm running debian 6.0.4 for amd64, with XFCE. I recently installed network-manager so I could use my Wi-Fi card, this installed hal as a dependency. The Wi-Fi now works properly but I have two known issues: - The resolution changed from 1280x1024 to 1280x960, and I can't chan

Re: [NOT SO BRIGHT UPDATE] Installing K3b installs HAL. Should I do it?

2011-05-12 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 12 May 2011 02:28:27 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > If you install Clamav after HAL was installed, a file /var/run/clamav/ > freshclam.pid is created with root:haldaemon group:owner permissions and > the following error is generated after installation: "ERROR: Can't

Re: [SOLVED] Installing K3b installs HAL. Should I do it?

2011-05-12 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 12 May 2011 00:07:36 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > Installed. So far no problems. :-) Good. > And BTW, why good old gnomebaker is not in squeeze repositories? Where > could I find it and would it work in squeeze? Gnomebaker has been "deprecated" upstream in favour of Brasero, AFAICT

Re: [NOT SO BRIGHT UPDATE] Installing K3b installs HAL. Should I do it?

2011-05-11 Thread Juan R. de Silva
since I definitely prefer it > to Brasero. Yesterday I tried to installed K3b in Squeeze and I noticed > that HAL would be installed with it as a dependency. Since I was not > sure on HAL I cancelled the installation until clarification. > > I'm not familiar in depth neither with ude

Re: [SOLVED] Installing K3b installs HAL. Should I do it?

2011-05-11 Thread Juan R. de Silva
since I definitely prefer it > to Brasero. Yesterday I tried to installed K3b in Squeeze and I noticed > that HAL would be installed with it as a dependency. Since I was not > sure on HAL I cancelled the installation until clarification. > > I'm not familiar in depth neither with ude

Re: Installing K3b installs HAL. Should I do it?

2011-05-11 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 11 May 2011 20:45:12 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: (...) > Back in Ubuntu I used to use K3b in GNOME since I definitely prefer it > to Brasero. Yesterday I tried to installed K3b in Squeeze and I noticed > that HAL would be installed with it as a dependency. Since I was not

Re: Installing K3b installs HAL. Should I do it?

2011-05-11 Thread Steven
E since I definitely prefer it to > Brasero. Yesterday I tried to installed K3b in Squeeze and I noticed that > HAL would be installed with it as a dependency. Since I was not sure on > HAL I cancelled the installation until clarification. > > I'm not familiar in depth neither with u

Installing K3b installs HAL. Should I do it?

2011-05-11 Thread Juan R. de Silva
Hi, I've recently switched from Lucid to Squeeze on my workstation. So, far I'm quite happy with the move but I'm still on a learning curve. Back in Ubuntu I used to use K3b in GNOME since I definitely prefer it to Brasero. Yesterday I tried to installed K3b in Squeeze and I no

Re: Xfce Power Manager popup message about HAL daemon

2011-02-21 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2011 21 Feb 12:35 -0600, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > And I thank you again! You're quite welcome. > In the meantime I'm starting the daemon from /etc/rc.local and > having no problems. > > I'm looking forward to eventually seeing Xfce 4.8. Indeed. Right now the packages in Experimental are

Re: Xfce Power Manager popup message about HAL daemon

2011-02-21 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 02/21/2011 08:35 AM, Nate Bargmann wrote: * On 2011 19 Feb 12:32 -0600, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: On 02/19/2011 12:31 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: Bug #612611 has been filed against xfce4-power-manager, xfce4-power-manager: Does not work with DBus activated HAL Message 15 in that report has a

Re: Xfce Power Manager popup message about HAL daemon

2011-02-21 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2011 19 Feb 12:32 -0600, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > On 02/19/2011 12:31 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: > >Bug #612611 has been filed against xfce4-power-manager, > >xfce4-power-manager: Does not work with DBus activated HAL > > > >Message 15 in that report ha

Re: Xfce Power Manager popup message about HAL daemon

2011-02-19 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
each reboot. Xfce power manager HAL daemon is not running I have seen that too, but so far only on my Sid box. The other boxes running XFCE4 are running Squeeze. In fact, until the latest update I had to restart the panel manually from a terminal. That's very interesting. I haven'

Re: Xfce Power Manager popup message about HAL daemon

2011-02-19 Thread Nate Bargmann
Xfce power manager > HAL daemon is not running I have seen that too, but so far only on my Sid box. The other boxes running XFCE4 are running Squeeze. In fact, until the latest update I had to restart the panel manually from a terminal. > The power manager applet itself is working fine,

Xfce Power Manager popup message about HAL daemon

2011-02-19 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
Following routine updates on a few Debian testing systems yesterday I noticed that two of the three laptops started showing an Xfce Power Manager popup message only upon the first login following each reboot. Xfce power manager HAL daemon is not running The power manager applet itself is

Re: hal installation problem - debian squeeze

2010-11-27 Thread Tixy
On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 22:13 +0100, debian wrote: > On 2GB SD made dist-upgrade > card removed hal and trying install again but always getting follow: Out of curiosity, why are you trying to install hal again? If something depended on it I wouldn't have expected it to get removed by a

hal installation problem - debian squeeze

2010-11-26 Thread debian
Hallo, I have a system which is working on arm debian squeeze from 4GB SD card system was cloned to the less size 2GB card and I have got problem with hal. With 4GB SD card working fine. On 2GB SD made dist-upgrade card removed hal and trying install again but always getting follow: deb

Re: Installer partitioner project, dif Debian Ubuntu, lvm, UUID, GPartEd, GRUB, HAL

2010-04-28 Thread Lisi
o something unwise with making use of UUIDs, & now they > > >> are backtracking? Did Debian do any of that? > > > > > > The Lenny installer defaults to populating /etc/fstab with UUIDs, IIRC. > > > The Etch installer still just used device names. UUID

Re: Installer partitioner project, dif Debian Ubuntu, lvm, UUID, GPartEd, GRUB, HAL

2010-04-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
tracking? Did Debian do any of that? > > > > The Lenny installer defaults to populating /etc/fstab with UUIDs, IIRC. > > The Etch installer still just used device names. UUIDs aren't directly > > related to HAL, although HAL can make use of them. > > My Lenny ins

Re: Installer partitioner project, dif Debian Ubuntu, lvm, UUID, GPartEd, GRUB, HAL

2010-04-28 Thread Camaleón
er defaults to populating /etc/fstab with UUIDs, IIRC. > The Etch installer still just used device names. UUIDs aren't directly > related to HAL, although HAL can make use of them. Just a side note. My Lenny installation defaulted to "/dev/sdax" nomenclature in both, &qu

Re: Installer partitioner project, dif Debian Ubuntu, lvm, UUID, GPartEd, GRUB, HAL

2010-04-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
, from the release notes on Ub 10.4, they say they are now removing > their addition of HAL (UUIDs?) in order to enable faster bootup. > "This release fully removes HAL from the boot process, making Ubuntu > faster to boot and faster to resume from suspend." > http://www.ubuntu.

Installer partitioner project, dif Debian Ubuntu, lvm, UUID, GPartEd, GRUB, HAL

2010-04-27 Thread giovanni_re
05-2010. I only use the "alternate" installer, so that I can custom set my partitions. I've never had problems like this before Ub 9.10. == My questions are largely about the difference between what Debian has/is been/doing, & what Ubuntu began doing in the past release or

Re: HAL UID ?

2010-03-28 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 15:02:47 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > Per some recent discussion here of command line mounting of plugable > storage, I am investigating pmount and pmount-hal. In the man page > for pmount-hal there is this: > > The first parameter (device) must be the

Re: HAL UID ?

2010-03-28 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:09:14 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20100327_212545, T o n g wrote: >> On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 15:02:47 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: >> >> > I am investigating pmount and pmount-hal >> >> IIRC, the HAL and everything related to it

Re: HAL UID ?

2010-03-27 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100327_212545, T o n g wrote: > On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 15:02:47 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > I am investigating pmount and pmount-hal > > IIRC, the HAL and everything related to it will be phased out soon. I > won't recommend you spend time on something th

Re: HAL UID ?

2010-03-27 Thread T o n g
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 15:02:47 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I am investigating pmount and pmount-hal IIRC, the HAL and everything related to it will be phased out soon. I won't recommend you spend time on something that'll be outdated soon. -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to

HAL UID ?

2010-03-27 Thread Paul E Condon
Per some recent discussion here of command line mounting of plugable storage, I am investigating pmount and pmount-hal. In the man page for pmount-hal there is this: The first parameter (device) must be the HAL UDI or the device node of ... I know that I can use pmount-hal with /dev/... but it

Re: Configuring a US keyboard with umlauts in sid (hal etc?)

2009-11-26 Thread Howard Eisenberger
On 2009-11-25, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 14:59, Howard Eisenberger wrote: >> On 2009-11-23, Frank Küster wrote: >> >>> in xorg.conf, I used this definition for my keyboard: >>> >>> Section "InputDevice" >>>  Option  "XkbOptions" "compose:caps,lv3:ralt_switch_multikey,eurosign:

Re: Configuring a US keyboard with umlauts in sid (hal etc?)

2009-11-24 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 14:59, Howard Eisenberger wrote: > On 2009-11-23, Frank Küster wrote: > >> I have a Thinkpad T43p which has a quite complete keyboard, and it comes >> with US layout. Which I like.  However, I'd also like to be able to >> easily input german Umlauts.  I don't like the compo

Re: Configuring a US keyboard with umlauts in sid (hal etc?)

2009-11-24 Thread Howard Eisenberger
On 2009-11-23, Frank Küster wrote: > I have a Thinkpad T43p which has a quite complete keyboard, and it comes > with US layout. Which I like. However, I'd also like to be able to > easily input german Umlauts. I don't like the compose approach, it > needs too much keypressing for fast typing. In

Configuring a US keyboard with umlauts in sid (hal etc?)

2009-11-23 Thread Frank Küster
t/keyboard, the other would be /etc/hal/fdi/policy. However, I can't figure out how to do it right. /etc/default/keyboard has keywords just like the old xorg.conf, but not quite. There, I have XKBMODEL, XKBLAYOUT, XKBVARIANT, and XKBOPTIONS in xorg.conf, I used this definition for m

lenny, alsa source code, cupsd hang, failed to initialize hal

2009-09-26 Thread Laurin d'Volts
alize HAL!" message in nautilus. If that weren't enough, I still can't access my snd-hda-intel card. How do I fix these issues? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Wine and/or hal and DVD discovery.

2009-09-23 Thread Mike Mestnik
Hello, For my problem wine discovers mounted DVDs via hal and the makes them available to dvdshrink, prior to this things are as if there just is no DVD drive. the issue have is that there are two DVDs, but only one shows up in wine. I have added the drive nto the wine

Re: Losing Debian to the cancer known as HAL

2009-09-13 Thread Consultores1
El dom, 13-09-2009 a las 19:49 -0400, JoeHill escribió: > Sam Leon wrote: > > > JoeHill wrote: > > > Dirk wrote: > > > > > >> I am not affiliated with Gentoo but I see a raising demand for Linux > > >> without HAL http://www.google.com

Re: Losing Debian to the cancer known as HAL

2009-09-13 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Dirk [2009 Sep 13 15:49 -0500]: > Hello, > > I have been using Debian/Unstable for more than 7 years. > > Now I am switching to Gentoo Bye! Free Software is about the choice that suits you the best. Enjoy! - Nate >> -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible world

Re: Losing Debian to the cancer known as HAL

2009-09-13 Thread JoeHill
Sam Leon wrote: > JoeHill wrote: > > Dirk wrote: > > > >> I am not affiliated with Gentoo but I see a raising demand for Linux > >> without HAL http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+remove+HAL (Yes, almost > >> 500.000 results) > > > >

Re: Losing Debian to the cancer known as HAL

2009-09-13 Thread Sam Leon
JoeHill wrote: Dirk wrote: I am not affiliated with Gentoo but I see a raising demand for Linux without HAL http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+remove+HAL (Yes, almost 500.000 results) Yeah, and 3,750,000 for 'linux install hal'. So what? I don't even know what HAL is..

Re: Losing Debian to the cancer known as HAL

2009-09-13 Thread Dirk
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,13.Sep.09, 23:12:00, Dirk wrote: Hello, I have been using Debian/Unstable for more than 7 years. Now I am switching to Gentoo because it really has become more attractive since Debian+HAL really isn't the operating system anymore I want to work with. [snip

Re: Losing Debian to the cancer known as HAL

2009-09-13 Thread JoeHill
Dirk wrote: > I am not affiliated with Gentoo but I see a raising demand for Linux without > HAL http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+remove+HAL (Yes, almost 500.000 > results) Yeah, and 3,750,000 for 'linux install hal'. So what? -- J -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Losing Debian to the cancer known as HAL

2009-09-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,13.Sep.09, 23:12:00, Dirk wrote: > Hello, > > I have been using Debian/Unstable for more than 7 years. > > Now I am switching to Gentoo because it really has become more > attractive since Debian+HAL really isn't the operating system > anymore I want to work wi

Losing Debian to the cancer known as HAL

2009-09-13 Thread Dirk
Hello, I have been using Debian/Unstable for more than 7 years. Now I am switching to Gentoo because it really has become more attractive since Debian+HAL really isn't the operating system anymore I want to work with. I was happy with Debian being an alternative with the choice and co

Re: HOWTO run xorg without hal

2009-08-22 Thread John Hasler
Dirk wrote: > some true asshole decreased linux' value as an alternative to windows by > making hal a dependency(!) of xorg now... I agree that this is objectionable. In any case, "dpkg --force-help" should tell you what you need to know in order to get rid of hal. --

Re: remapping keys using hal (is it possible to replace xmodmap with hal?)

2009-08-19 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:08:28 +0300 Micha Feigin wrote: > I'm looking to remap the forward/back keys, preferably using hal to > pageup/pagedown so that I can use them for presentation (I have a > bluetooth mouse that generates these instead of pageup/pagedown) > > lshal -m s

remapping keys using hal

2009-08-19 Thread Micha Feigin
I'm looking to remap the forward/back keys, preferably using hal to pageup/pagedown so that I can use them for presentation (I have a bluetooth mouse that generates these instead of pageup/pagedown) lshal -m shows that these keys are mapped to: 23:05:5

Re: HOWTO enhance Debian by removing HAL

2009-08-04 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 13:29 +0200, Dirk wrote: > I wonder why people who need "nanny-features" like HAL refuse to > just use windows instead. With this statement you drove me away from your proposal that I otherwise was in favor of. 'nugh said Siggy -- Please don'

Re: HOWTO enhance Debian by removing HAL

2009-08-04 Thread Jochen Schulz
Siggy Brentrup: > On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 13:59 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> I really don't want to upset you even more, but allow me the question: >> where's the problem in running ancient software on even more ancient >> hardware? Is there anything you really need from squeeze on this >> ma

Re: [OT] Freedom vs. entitlement (was Re: HOWTO enhance Debian by removing HAL)

2009-08-04 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 08:57 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: [snip] I mostly agree with you on your discourse on HAL, please note that I din't argue against HAL per se but only against being forced to use it on every hardware I want to use current X on. > What surprises me is

Re: HOWTO enhance Debian by removing HAL

2009-08-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
t; removing it or leaving it. The choice is still mine. >> We'll see, my choices are: current X, no HAL. >Where's my freedom, I'm stuck with ancient X if I don't want to >run otherwise unused SW? Your freedoms: 0. Run the software for any purpose. 1. Study the software

Re: HOWTO enhance Debian by removing HAL

2009-08-04 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 13:59 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Siggy Brentrup: > > > > Where's my freedom, I'm stuck with ancient X if I don't want to > > run otherwise unused SW? > > I really don't want to upset you even more, but allow me the question: > where's the problem in running ancient soft

Re: [OT] Freedom vs. entitlement (was Re: HOWTO enhance Debian by removing HAL)

2009-08-04 Thread Paul E Condon
te: > > > > > >>I am concerned about X's dependency on HAL. Years ago I was using my > > >>SGI Indy with a superb SGI Monitor and US keyboard (brackets and > > >>braces at the right places) to have up to 6 xterms onscreen; the > > >>mac

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