HAL daemon

k5knt · #1 13th March 2005, 02:06 AM

Who is HAL and what is this daemon doing on my system?
Can it safely be removed or disabled?

Thanks.

ravalox · #2 13th March 2005, 02:10 AM

http://www.redhat.com/magazine/003jan05/features/hal/

Hardware Abstraction Layer, read on but I think halting it is bad.

k5knt · #3 13th March 2005, 02:57 AM

Thanks for the link.

It appears that this relates to my other problem: http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=47193

Any idea how to fix it?

ravalox · #4 15th March 2005, 01:58 PM

Hmm, I don't have any kind of really clinical authority here, but if you attempt to use /sbin/fuser on the device on the file system; eg /dev/dvd is the object on the filesystem that corresponds to the DVD drive on your machine.

http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl1_fuser.htm

k5knt · #5 16th March 2005, 04:30 AM

Thanks, the main issue appears to have been with one of my USB ports. I've got things working now with the haldaemon still running.