I disabled hal, seems everything works fine. This reduced loading time for 4-5 seconds. gnome-vfs depends on hal package, does it mean that I can't totally remove hal from my system? 2010/9/10, Ivan S. Freitas <ivansichfreitas@xxxxxxxxx>: > 2010/9/10 Галымжан Кожаев <kozhayev@xxxxxxxxx>: >> 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 ? > > udev should take care of it. But, IMHO, it's not hal that is slowing > your boot, unless you use a very old computer. > >> >> 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 >> > > > > -- > ============================================== > Ivan Sichmann Freitas > Engenharia de Computação 2009 > UNICAMP > http://identi.ca/ivansichmann > Grupo Pró Software Livre UNICAMP - GPSL > ============================================== > -- 2b || !2b
