Thanks for the replies. I added hal daemon to the DAEMONS list according to this wiki page: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME#Daemons_and_modules_needed_by_GNOME How does GNOME deal with USB flashdrive detection, etc without HAL ? 2010/9/10 Jan de Groot <jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 11:07 +0600, Галымжан Кожаев wrote: > > Hi list. > > Few days ago I've succesfully installed arch. It was booting really fast > > first time (i.e. without gnome, networkmanager, etc). > > After installing GNOME and some daemons, adding them to the rc.conf, the > > system now takes 30-40 seconds to load. > > I heard that HAL daemon takes a lot of time during boot and it's > > functionality can be replaced by udev. > > How could I completely remove HAL and still use GNOME without troubles? Is > > it possible? > > I have: > > - GNOME 2.30 > > - xorg 1.8 > > - hal 0.5 > > You can remove HAL from DAEMONS, as GNOME doesn't use it. Only gnome-vfs > enabled applications can still use it, but GNOME itself doesn't contain > such applications anymore. > -- 2b || !2b
