[gentoo-user] What's with this hald thing and why can't I rip CDs any more?

2008-01-08 Thread Mark Knecht
I went to rip a few CDs today. It used to work. It's always worked . It's worked for years it worked. Today it doesn't work First problem is apps don't see the CDs. Running sound-juicer in a terminal mentioned hald might not be running. I look in rc-update and find hald. I start it. sound-jui

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with this hald thing and why can't I rip CDs any more?

2008-01-08 Thread Naiani Rosa de Barros
Hi! Hald is, if I'm not wrong, the daemon for HAL, Hardware Abstraction Layer, it's an interface used to ease communication between software and hardware of your computer. It keeps info from your hardware so it's easier to access/modify them at any time, including new devices that you might connec

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with this hald thing and why can't I rip CDs any more?

2008-01-08 Thread Naiani Rosa de Barros
Forgot to mention: about the problem with ripping CDs, and if it sort of works when you start hald, I'd say you should try re-emerging it. Maybe something got corrupted somehow, or is just outdated. Good luck! On Jan 9, 2008 12:54 AM, Naiani Rosa de Barros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > Hal

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with this hald thing and why can't I rip CDs any more?

2008-01-08 Thread Dale
Naiani Rosa de Barros wrote: > Forgot to mention: about the problem with ripping CDs, and if it sort > of works when you start hald, I'd say you should try re-emerging it. > Maybe something got corrupted somehow, or is just outdated. > > Good luck! > > And if you are like me and don't reboot mu

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with this hald thing and why can't I rip CDs any more?

2008-01-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Jan 8, 2008 8:24 PM, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Naiani Rosa de Barros wrote: > > Forgot to mention: about the problem with ripping CDs, and if it sort > > of works when you start hald, I'd say you should try re-emerging it. > > Maybe something got corrupted somehow, or is just outdated. >

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with this hald thing and why can't I rip CDs any more?

2008-01-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:41:16 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > Things here are still basically a disaster. I rebooted. No change. > sound-juicer still only rips the 1st six tracks and then skips the > last seven. Pretty much the same on every CD I've tried so far. No > messages in dmesg. Have you trie

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with this hald thing and why can't I rip CDs any more?

2008-01-09 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:41:16 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > >> Things here are still basically a disaster. I rebooted. No change. >> sound-juicer still only rips the 1st six tracks and then skips the >> last seven. Pretty much the same on every CD I've tried so far. No >>

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with this hald thing and why can't I rip CDs any more?

2008-01-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Jan 9, 2008 10:49 AM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:41:16 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Things here are still basically a disaster. I rebooted. No change. > > sound-juicer still only rips the 1st six tracks and then skips the > > last seven. Pretty much the

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with this hald thing and why can't I rip CDs any more?

2008-01-09 Thread Naiani Rosa de Barros
On Jan 9, 2008 5:03 PM, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 9, 2008 10:49 AM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:41:16 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > > Things here are still basically a disaster. I rebooted. No change. > > > sound-juicer still only r

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with this hald thing and why can't I rip CDs any more?

2008-01-09 Thread Naiani Rosa de Barros
On Jan 9, 2008 7:08 PM, Naiani Rosa de Barros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 9, 2008 5:03 PM, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 9, 2008 10:49 AM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:41:16 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > > > > Things here are

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with this hald thing and why can't I rip CDs any more?

2008-01-09 Thread Dale
Naiani Rosa de Barros wrote: > On Jan 9, 2008 7:08 PM, Naiani Rosa de Barros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Jan 9, 2008 5:03 PM, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> On Jan 9, 2008 10:49 AM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:41:16 -0

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with this hald thing and why can't I rip CDs any more?

2008-01-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Jan 9, 2008 5:16 PM, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Naiani Rosa de Barros wrote: > > On Jan 9, 2008 7:08 PM, Naiani Rosa de Barros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On Jan 9, 2008 5:03 PM, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jan 9, 2008 10:49 AM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PRO

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with this hald thing and why can't I rip CDs any more?

2008-01-09 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: > > Hi Dale, >I disabled hald in rc-update and rebooted. Now Totem and Gnome are > not auto-mounting anything. K3b can see the CD. cddb and ripping seem > to work fine with hald disabled. > >I think the overall set of problems were: > > 1) sound-juicer has developed some

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with this hald thing and why can't I rip CDs any more?

2008-01-09 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: > > Hi Dale, >I disabled hald in rc-update and rebooted. Now Totem and Gnome are > not auto-mounting anything. K3b can see the CD. cddb and ripping seem > to work fine with hald disabled. > >I think the overall set of problems were: > > 1) sound-juicer has developed some

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with this hald thing and why can't I rip CDs any more?

2008-01-10 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Dale wrote: | [...] Keep in mind that I have KDE and not gnome here. Well, something that NEVER happened to me during my Gentoo years on my desktop computer (I like changing distros from time to time, just for the fun of it) was HAL disturbing me

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with this hald thing and why can't I rip CDs any more?

2008-01-10 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Joerg Schilling wrote: | - The fork "cdrkit" is known for not working at all in many cases because | of a bad hack in libscg. Yes, I have to check that. | - HAL works on Solaris, but it does not work on Linux. | It does not wor

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with this hald thing and why can't I rip CDs any more?

2008-01-10 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > Dale wrote: > | [...] Keep in mind that I have KDE and not gnome here. > > Well, something that NEVER happened to me during my Gentoo years on my > desktop computer (I like > changing di