KDE 3.5.4 and HAL/CD polling: check boxes greyed out

[Justin Denick]

What were your USE flags when you comile KDE?

On 8/3/06, Sebastian Kemper <sebastian_ml at gmx.net> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm running 3.5.4 on Gentoo (split ebuilds). I wanted to use HAL, but
> allthough I have all the makings (HAL, dbus, pmount) I wasn't able to
> activate HAL in the KDE control center because the check-boxes were
> greyed out (they still are). I found a workaround, though, I was able to
> edit ~/.kde3.5/share/config/mediamanagerrc and set
> HalBackendEnabled=true and after a KDE restart HAL now works.
>
> I went to #kde on freenode and met a guy with the same issue. Also on
> the Gentoo forums there's a thread about this:
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-485954.html
>
> Any idea what the greyed out check boxes for HAL and CD polling are
> about?
>
> Regards
> Sebastian
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