My brother is running into a problem on his Acer Aspire 5570z laptop, the CD drive is not being ?properly polled? by HAL, so he gets a 'feature only available with HAL' type error.
After a lot of reading, I came across a post that suggested waiting at the log in screen for a few minutes, so that HAL can do it's thing before KDM kicks in. He tried this and it works every time.
A suggested 'fix' for this was to edit rc2.d files so that KDM starts last, instead of at 13 (and HAL would stay at 24.) I have not been able to find information about if this is harmful, having KDM start so late and after virtually everything else.
Need a little help here before I (in Texas) tell my big brother (in Idaho) to do something that might nuke his computer... understanding that rc2.d is just one run level and that there are others, but he is not that comfortable with Linux yet.
Would there be a better 'position' for KDM than last, but would still have it starting after HAL? Obviously, I could have him change it to S25KDM, not sure if that would be late enough. The situation doesn't really lend itself to a poke-and-hope. lol
Is there a better fix for this?
Thanks for reading!
After a lot of reading, I came across a post that suggested waiting at the log in screen for a few minutes, so that HAL can do it's thing before KDM kicks in. He tried this and it works every time.
A suggested 'fix' for this was to edit rc2.d files so that KDM starts last, instead of at 13 (and HAL would stay at 24.) I have not been able to find information about if this is harmful, having KDM start so late and after virtually everything else.
Need a little help here before I (in Texas) tell my big brother (in Idaho) to do something that might nuke his computer... understanding that rc2.d is just one run level and that there are others, but he is not that comfortable with Linux yet.
Would there be a better 'position' for KDM than last, but would still have it starting after HAL? Obviously, I could have him change it to S25KDM, not sure if that would be late enough. The situation doesn't really lend itself to a poke-and-hope. lol
Is there a better fix for this?
Thanks for reading!
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