[desktop-discuss] Disabling HAL, and getting GNOME to startup

[Artem Kachitchkine]

Jeremy Teo wrote:
> Long story short:
> 
> 1. HAL causes a MCE on my box. So i disable it
> 2. gnome-volume-manager crashes now when gnome tries to start up. I
> end up with an unusable gnome session.
> 
> So, how do I get gnome to startup, without HAL?

You can try to disable gnome-volume-manager (by removing its .desktop 
file, AFAIR).

Have you found out why exactly the MCE happens or filed a driver bug or 
reported it to the driver-discuss at opensolaris.org?

-Artem.