Re: hotplug devices?

Mario Streiber <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.desktop.xfce.goodies.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
> I think the hal (hardware abstraction language) package can help you :
> http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/hal

Thanks for the hints. HAL is already installed. Unfortunately both hal-device-manager and gnome-volume-manager say hald is not running. hal-device-manager tells me

  Could not get device list. Make sure hald is running!

And gnome-volume-manager says

  libhal.c 767 : org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply raised
  "No reply within specified time"


  ** (gnome-volume-manager:10537): WARNING **: manager.c/1205: seems that HAL is not running

but hald is running:

hal       5926     1  1 08:02 ?        00:07:33 /usr/sbin/hald --drop-privileges



What am I doing wrong?
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